Illustrations and simple text explain what rain is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and the importance of clean water.

Where does rain come from? What are clouds made of? Follow water as it makes its way through the entire water cycle. Then go back in time to the very first rainfall millions of years ago. Discover how water and rain transformed Earth from a lifeless rock into the beautiful, water-filled planet we live on today.

Presents information about the water cycle, including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and more.

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

The amount of water on Earth today is the same amount that will be on it tomorrow! How is this possible? Through understandable descriptions and helpful graphic organizers, readers are introduced to the water cycle. Full-color photographs and fun fact boxes supplement the main content, which takes readers through the cycle step by step. Basic science concepts such as precipitation, evaporation, and groundwater are explored, and readers are presented...

In this work about the water cycle, readers discover that the molecules in their glass of water may have once been part of a dinosaur watering hole.

Discusses water, its different states of solid, liquid, and gas and how they are all part of the water cycle.

Introduces basic scientific principles about water and the water cycle, providing instructions for simple experiments that examine such topics as solubility, density, the pH scale, and capillarity.