Information Report The Water Cycle

The Water cycle is a process that water goes through between land, sea and atmosphere. The steps in the water cycle are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, ground-water, runoff and accumulation. The water is recycled throughout the process. The water changes state throughout the process, liquid, gas (water vapor) and solid.

Evaporation

Evaporation is when sun heats up the water in the lakes rivers and oceans and turns it into as also known as vapor. The process is invisible and changes liquid and frozen water into water vapor then it floats up into the sky. On hot days the water evaporates better than on cloudy winter days. When warm air with lots of water vapor in it moves into colder temperatures, it causes the water vapor to condense into a liquid. Once the water turn into a gas and it floats up into the sky it forms into cloud which is called condensation.

Condensation/Precipitation

When water vapor that has gone into the sky cools it becomes clouds; it then gets pushed around the world by moving air currents and winds. Tiny droplets fall onto each other and merge making a larger droplet. When a droplet is big enough gravity will pull it down stronger than the updraft of the cloud, making the droplet fall out of the cloud onto the ground. The amount of precipitation that falls every year is different all around the world. In desserts it may only rain one inch per year while on some mountains it could rain to up to 600 inch per year. Condensation happens because of the temperature. After precipitation the water goes into the ground causing groundwater and runoff.

Runoff/Groundwater

Runoff is nothing more than water running off the land surface due to gravity. Runoff is important because it flows over the land and some goes into the ground recharging groundwater and giving water to plants. The ground stores lots of water and it exists to some degree no matter where on Earth you are. Groundwater serves oodles in nature such as keeping plants alive, filling aquifers, from which people can take water, contributing water to rivers and lakes, and finally flowing into the oceans.

The water cycle is an important process that recycles water using these 5 steps evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and groundwater.

My CARE Progress

I have done a check of my CARE progress so far this year.

I am proud of my progress because I have already achieved my bronze and I am on my way with silver.

I'm not to far away from getting my silver I already have a third on my tick on my chart.

The area of CARE that I need to try harder in C / A / R / E because I don't have as many ticks in that area.

To achieve my SILVER award quicker I need to work harder to get more ticks.

The one thing that I can do to improve my progress in CARE is to remember to put my ticks in.

We will review CARE progress again at the end of the term.

I can apply my knowledge of adverbial clauses and connectives to see how ideas are linked in texts.

I can apply my knowledge of adverbial clauses and connectives to see how ideas are linked in texts.

For reading I have been learning about adverbial clauses. I have found this learning interesting because I learnt a lot about adverbial clauses and at the start I had no idea what it was.

In this activity (link to adverbial clause activity), I had to read a sentences and highlight the adverbial clause in them. Activity

I can recognise and understand a variety of grammatical constructions and some rhetorical patterns

I can recognise and understand a variety of grammatical constructions and some rhetorical patterns

In this unit I have been learning about:

• The parts of speech.
• The types of nouns.
• The types of sentences.

In this unit, I found challenging learning all the different nouns.

Something new I learnt was how to identify different types of nouns.

Reason with linear proportions

WALT: - Order fractions with unlike denominators by finding a common denominator

I have been learning to work with fractions that have unlike denominators. Here are 3 screenshots to show my new understanding:

My next step is: to use prime numbers, common factors and multiples, and powers (including square roots).

WALT: I can recognise and understand the features and structures of a wide variety of text types and forms.

WALT: I can recognise and understand the features and structures of a wide variety of text types and forms.

The text types that we studied were:

• Poems.
• Stories/ narratives.
• Articles
• Websites

1. Each text type has different structures and features because: Some text have different kinds of features like true information and false information.

2. Two text types that I have enjoyed learning about are poems and  narratives.     Link

Maths Measurement

WALT : Deduce and us formulae to find the perimeters and area of polygons and the volumes of prisms.
WALT : Find the perimeters and areas of circles and composite shapes and the volumes of prisms, and cylinders.



 




My next step is volume and calculating the area of circles.