Water In Many Ways

I haven’t ever thought much about water. I know that after it rains, and the sun comes out, the water evaporates and goes into the sky and makes clouds. Clouds are just water vapors and when the water vapors hit chilly air, they condense and fall to the ground in drops of water known as rain.



Sleet, hail, and snow are just frozen rain. 

Snow is made when tiny ice crystals in the sky stick together and get heavy enough to fall.

When it sleets, the snowflakes partially melt and refreeze before they hit the ground. Hail is made when rain is blown into the extremely cold parts of the atmosphere where it freezes. Then as it falls, it collects more rain which freezes on it, causing it to grow. It finally hits the ground as hail.

Water freezes when the temperature is 32 degrees or less. Water boils and evaporates when the temperature is 212 degrees or higher. Water expands when freezing and when you put water in a plastic container and set it out in freezing weather, the freezing water will expand and crack the container.

There is salt and fresh water on earth. The saltiest water on earth is the Dead Sea. The ice sheet of Antarctica holds 80 to 90 percent of earth’s fresh water. This ice sheet is an average of 7,100 feet thick! At the thickest point, it is three miles deep! There’s so much ice, that if it melted, the sea level around world would rise by 180 to 200 feet!

I am thankful for water because it makes things grow, including humans. Genesis 1:6-7 says, "Then God said, 'Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, and let it separate the waters from the waters.' God made the expanse and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so." Water is a big part of the earth, and without it, the world would dry up and everything would die. Water does more than I thought, and I am thankful it does.

~Samuel