Water Cycle Crossword Puzzles

Follow a single droplet through our Water Cycle crossword puzzles on Grid Genius. Test your knowledge of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection, and the processes that keep the planet's water in constant motion.

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About Water Cycle Crosswords

Trace the journey of a single droplet with our Water Cycle crosswords. Clues guide players through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection, along with the runoff, infiltration, and transpiration that move water between the sky, the land, and the oceans. It is a hands-on way to reinforce earth science vocabulary while exploring the system that keeps the planet's water in constant motion.

Interesting Facts

1.A water molecule spends an average of about nine days in the atmosphere, but a droplet that sinks into the deep ocean can stay there for thousands of years.
2.About 97 percent of Earth's water is salty ocean water, and most of the freshwater is frozen in glaciers and ice caps, leaving under 1 percent easily available to living things.
3.The Sun powers the whole cycle, lifting an estimated 500,000 cubic kilometers of water into the air through evaporation every year.
4.Water vapor itself is invisible. The clouds, fog, and steam we can see are already tiny liquid droplets that condensed out of the gas.
5.Plants return huge amounts of water to the air through transpiration. A single large oak tree can release roughly 150,000 liters of water vapor in a year.