Question 12 of 12intermediate🔧 ApplyShort Answer4 marks

Discuss with your teacher and act out the stages of the water cycle through a role-playing activity in your school assembly.

Correct Answer

A role-playing activity for the water cycle can include students acting as different components.

(1) Students representing ocean/lake/river water (liquid state) can wear blue and move slowly. (2) Students representing water vapour (gaseous state) can rise up and spread out, showing evaporation.

(3) Students representing clouds can group together and show condensation when they reach a 'cold' area. (4) Students representing rain/snow/hail can fall down from the cloud group back to the ground/ocean.

The stages to act out are: Water in oceans/rivers → Evaporation (water heats up and rises as vapour) → Condensation (vapour cools at height and forms clouds) → Precipitation (rain/snow/hail falls) → Collection (water returns to oceans/ground).

The cycle then repeats. Narrators can explain each transformation as students demonstrate the state changes.

Exercise: Learning further | Q: L3 | (Page Page 20)
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Explanation

The chapter explains the water cycle on page 17: 'The water from the ocean and the Earth's surface evaporates into the atmosphere as vapour and returns as rain, hail or snow, ultimately flowing back to the oceans. This circulation of water is known as the water cycle.' Activity 8.11 on page 17 also asks students to label a diagram showing the water cycle with terms like Cloud, Lake, Ocean, River, Groundwater, Evaporation, Condensation, Rain, and Snow.

Solution Steps

  1. Students act as different components of the water cycle in a role-playing activity

  2. Students representing ocean/lake/river water (liquid state) wear blue and move slowly

  3. Students representing water vapour (gaseous state) rise up and spread out, showing evaporation

  4. Students representing clouds group together and show condensation in cold areas

  5. Students representing rain/snow/hail fall down from clouds back to ground/ocean

  6. Water cycle stages: Water in oceans/rivers → Evaporation → Condensation → Precipitation → Collection

  7. The cycle repeats continuously

  8. Narrators explain each transformation as students demonstrate state changes

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