A Wonderleaf question
Where does rain come from?
a real page from the book
Rain comes from water that rises from Earth, gathers in clouds, and falls back down. Sun warms seas, lakes, rivers, and puddles until some water becomes invisible vapor; higher, colder air turns it into tiny liquid drops.
Those drops drift together inside a cloud, bumping and joining until some grow too heavy for the air to hold. Then gravity brings them down as rain. The same water keeps cycling, so a raindrop today may be very, very old.
Wonder words
- vapor
- droplet
- cloud
- gravity
Try it out
Put a cup outside during a shower, then compare the collected rain with water from the tap.
Read the whole picture book
Watercolour scenes, straight answers, about three minutes cover to cover.
Open the picture bookKeep wondering
- Why do mountains change the weather?
- Why is frost sparkly?
- Why is the sky sometimes gray?
- Why do clouds change shape?
- How do meteorologists predict the weather?
- Why does the air smell different after rain?
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