1. THE WATER IS QUICKER THAN THE EYE By Seth Diggins April 19, 2009

5. Things I learned from books about water: How high in the sky can water go? Clouds are water vapor. The highest a cloud goes is 9 miles above earth. How do you get water vapor? Water vapor forms when liquid water turns into gas. What makes water evaporate? Evaporation is caused by heat. Where do the most clouds form? Near the equator will be the most clouds because The sun makes it hotter Because it is hotter, more water evaporates Since more water evaporates you get more clouds.

6. How do you get condensation? Condensation happens when air cools down. How do you get clouds? Condensation makes clouds because the water droplets cluster together. Can the air hold a whole bunch of water? When the air is 18  F warmer the air can hold two times more water.

7. Things I know about water: Water evaporates, condenses and precipitates. Water evaporates slowly. Small bits of water evaporate. Little bits of water turn into clouds. Little bits of water stick together and that’s how clouds are formed. Little bits come together and get so big and heavy that they fall. When they fall, we call it precipitate.

8. Then the process starts all over again. Raindrops always start as snowflakes because it is so cold up where the clouds are. As the snowflakes fall they go through warmer air and melt into raindrops. Snow melts. Water makes puddles, streams, oceans, rivers and lakes.

9. Question: How fast does water evaporate when there are different temperatures?

10. Hypothesis: Water at higher temperatures will evaporate faster.

11. EXPERIMENT This experiment will measure how much water evaporates. A scale will be used to measure how much water the cup has lost. Materials: 5 Cups 5 Thermometers 1 Scale 1 Measuring cup Water 1. Get 5 cups. Put 150 ml water in each. 2. Weigh each cup. 3. Put cups of water in certain places 1 – near woodstove 1 – in freezer 1 – in refrigerator 1- in bedroom 1- in kitchen 4. Wait a day, weigh each cup and see how much water each lost. Weigh the cup on a scale. Write down the surrounding temperature. 5. The next day, weigh each cup and see how much it lost. 6. Do step 5 for 14 days.

12. Results from first test – weights

13. Results from first test- temperatures

14. Results from second test – weights

15. Results from second test - temperatures

19. Conclusion: In the first test my hypothesis was right. In the second test my hypothesis was right. If you have a higher heat, you lose more water. We can’t have the woodstove room data because when I wrote down the temperatures from it they were cold. When I left and did my other temperatures the heat went up in the woodstove room because my daddy started the fire. So the temperatures went up when the fire heated up and the heat went down when the fire went out.

21. RESOURCES The Kids’ Book of Weather Forecasting by Mark Breen. Williamson Books, Nashville, 2008. The Magic Schoolbus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole. Scholastic Inc., New York, 1986. Power Basics: Earth and Space Science by Robert Taggart. Walch Publishing, Portland, Maine, 2005. Water Up, Water Down: The Hydrologic Cycle by Sally M Walker. Carolrhoda Books Inc., Minneapolis, 1992. Weather Watch: Forecasting the Weather by Jonathan DW Kahl. Lerner Publishing, Minneapolis, 1996.

22. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Michele Diggins helped me by reading some of the resources to me and writing down things I said to write. She also helped by suggesting to weigh the cups with water to know how much water was lost and by saying to get a thermometer to see how hot the room was. She figured out how to make a graph on the computer and then showed me.