Water Cycle | Reading Practice sovathbdm

 

The water cycle, also known as the hydrological cycle, is the journey water takes as it moves from the land to the sky and back again. It all begins with the sun, which heats up water in rivers, lakes, and oceans. This water evaporates and turns into water vapor, rising into the sky. As the water vapor rises, it cools down and forms tiny droplets. These droplets come together to create clouds.

When the clouds get heavy, the droplets fall back to Earth as precipitation. Precipitation can be rain, snow, sleet, or hail, depending on the temperature. This water then flows back into rivers, lakes, and oceans, and the cycle starts all over again. Some of this water also seeps into the ground, replenishing underground reservoirs called aquifers.

The water cycle is important because it distributes fresh water across the planet, supports all living organisms, and helps regulate the Earth's temperature.

Vocabulary

1. Water Cycle (Hydrologic Cycle): The movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to the Earth's surface វដ្តទឹក
2. journey (n): the act of traveling from one place to another ការធ្វើដំណើរ
3. heat up (v): make something hot; become hot ដុតកំដៅ
4. evaporate (v): the change from a liquid to a gas ភាយ, ហួត
5. vapor (n): water in form of gas ចំហាយ
6. tiny (adj): very small តួច
7. droplet (n): a small drop of fluid តំណក់ទឹក
8. precipitation (n): rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground. ភ្លៀង
9. sleet (n): rain containing some ice, as when snow melts as it falls. ភ្លៀងលាយគ្រាប់ព្រឹល
10. seep (v): pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings ជ្រាបចូល
11. replenish (v): to fill again, make good, replace បំពេញឡើងវិញ
12. reservoir (n): a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply អាងស្តុកទឹក
13. aquifer (n): An underground formation that contains groundwater
14. distribute (v): to give out in shares; to scatter or spread ចែកចាយ
15. regulate (v): to control គ្រប់គ្រង
16. organism (n): A living thing ភាវរស់

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True/False Statement 

Write T if the statement is True and F if the statement is False. 

1. ________ The water cycle is also known as the hydrological cycle. 

 2. ________Water vapor is formed when water cools down. 

 3. ________Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets. 

 4. ________Precipitation only falls as rain. 

 5. ________The sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, and oceans. 

 6. ________When clouds get heavy, they release water droplets back to Earth. 

 7. ________Evaporation happens when water turns into ice. 

 8. ________The water cycle helps regulate the Earth's temperature. 

 9. ________All precipitation flows directly back into the oceans. 

10. ________Some water seeps into the ground and replenishes aquifers.