Droplet here, Are you ready to join me for an adventure? I've been hanging around here in the ocean for a while now but soon the sun will rise and start to heat things up around here.

Those suns rays provide lots of heat and energy and warm things up here in the ocean. I noticed that quite a few of my water droplet friends have been disappearing into thin air now that the days are getting warmer.

Check out the water vapor over the water in this picture. That's what we look like when we start to travel up out of the water and into the earth's atmosphere, although you don't always see it happening. The colder air up above turns us back into liquid water and we join together to form into clouds. This part of our adventure is pretty wild. We call it evaporation.

EVAPORATION

Here you can see lots of us droplets up in the sky just hanging around as clouds. The winds will start to move us across the sky and eventually we may even end up over the land.

See those big dark clouds? You better get your raincoat ready because here we come!

PRECIPTATION!!!

Some of my droplet friends got caught in a big weather pattern and were swept way up north where it's very cold. They fall from the sky too, but not as rain, as snow.

As things start to warm up in the north, the snow melts and my fellow droplets become liquid again. When they start to flow over the land back to the rivers and lakes it's called surface runoff.

As for me, I landed on this really cool leaf and it was happy to see me. You see, plants can dry out when they lose water from their leaves. This is called transpiration.

Eventually, the water from precipitation and runoff collects together back on earth and the whole cycle starts again when we evaporate and make our way up into the atmosphere again. This is a never ending cycle for us water droplets. I hope you enjoyed the adventure!