Build Your Own Water Cycle

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You will need:

  1. jar
  2. plants
  3. bottle cap or
    shell of water
  4. soil
  5. sand
  6. small rocks

graphic of jar diagram

(Fill the jar first with small rocks, then sand, then soil. Then add plants in the soil and place your bottle cap or shell of water in the jar.)

 

 

Fill jar as in the picture and put the lid on. Put the jar in a sunny place and see how the water cycle works.

 

 

 

 

  • 97% of the water on earth is in the oceans
  • Only 3% of the water on earth is freshwater
  • About 2.4% of the water on earth is permanently frozen in glaciers and at the polar ice caps
  • About 1/2 of 1 % of the water on earth is groundwater
  • Only about 1/100 of 1% of the water on earth is in the rivers and lakes
  • It takes 39,090 gallons of water to make a new car, including the tires
  • Over 17,000,000 houses use private wells for their drinking water supply
  • A person can live about a month without food, but can live only about 1 week without water

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