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WATER

Connor Dayton

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The Four Elements

Water

Connor Dayton Illustrations by Cecco Mariniello

New York

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Published in 2015 by Windmill Books, An Imprint of Rosen Publishing East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010

Copyright 2015 by Windmill Books, An Imprint of Rosen Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.

Illustrations by Cecco Mariniello Computer graphics by Roberto Simoni

Photo Credits: p. Dieter Hawlan/iStock/Thinkstock; p. Khoroshunova Olga/Shutterstock. com; p. Stephane Bidouze/Shutterstock. com; p. ( left) Carina-Foto/Shutterstock. com; p. ( right) Jean Michel Georges/iStock/Thinkstock; pp. 22-23 VLADJ55/Shutterstock. com; p. Alexey Kamenskiy/Shutterstock. com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dayton, Connor. Water / by Connor Dayton.

pages cm. ( The four elements) Includes index. ISBN 978-1-4777-9267-4 ( library binding) ISBN 978-1-4777-9268-1 ( pbk. ) ISBN 978-1-4777-9265-0 ( 6-pack) Water Juvenile literature. Four elements ( Philosophy) Juvenile literature. I. Title. GB662. D398 2015 dc23

2013050483

Manufactured in the United States of America

CPSIA Compliance Information: Batch # BW14WM: For Further Information contact Windmill Books, New York, New York at 1-866-478-0556 Windmill Books wishes to thank AD Books for original creation of content in this book.

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Contents

Introduction

Water: A True Friend

Water, W ater Everywhere

A Bucket Filled with Life

States of W ater

The W ater Cycle

The Thirsty Earth

Salty W ater

W ater Is an Artist

Putting W ater to W ork

W ild W ater

Dirty W ater, Clean W ater

Glossary

Further Reading

Index

W ebsites

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The Four Elements

Ancient peoples thought the world was made of four elements. These elements were water, re, air, and earth. We now know that the Earth is made of many more elements. We still use the term element for these materials. There are elements on Earth, while even more exist in space.

This series looks at the science behind the original elements. Even though none of them is what we now know to be an element, each is very important. Without water, life could not exist!

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Water: A True Friend

Water is a part of our lives. From swimming to bathing to washing our clothes, we depend on this liquid in many different ways.

We cannot live without water, because our bodies need it to work. In fact, humans can only survive for a few days without drinking water.

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Water, Water Everywhere

What do you see when you picture water? Maybe you see a glass of drinking water, or

a lake or river. Water is also in

places where you cant see it. Plants,

trees, and clouds are all partly made of water.

Even your body is more than half water. This doesnt mean that there are rivers and lakes under your skin. But every part of your body is partly made of water.

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You may have heard someone call water H2O. This is because water is made of two elements, called hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O). Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. This is why it is called H2O.

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A Bucket Filled with Life

The rst life on Earth began in water. They were simple creatures, but every type of animal and plant on Earth today is related to the rst life forms.

Simple life forms, like plankton, are still all over the ocean. If you took a small bucket to the ocean and lled it with water, you would have hundreds of thousands of tiny, tiny plankton in your bucket!

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States of Water

Water on Earth exists in three forms. The solid form of water

is ice. Ice is not just something you use to cool down a drink. Ice is found naturally on Earth in glaciers and at the North and

South Poles. If ice is taken out of a cold place, it will melt and become a liquid. Liquid water lls all the oceans, lakes, and rivers of planet Earth.

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When water boils, some of the water becomes a gas, water vapor. If that water vapor cools, it will condense, or turn from a gas back into a liquid.

Solids, liquids, and gases are called the states of matter. All elements

can be in these states, even metals.

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