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FORMS OF WATER

• Hands-on Learning
Activity S E L Self-Management

Take an ice tray. Pour some water in it and place it in the freezer of your refrigerator. Take out
the tray after 3 or 4 hours and check. What do you get?

You get ice cubes in the tray. Water

You must have added ice vapour
cubes to cool your favourite

drinks. You must have also Ice
seen steam coming out of Water

a cup of hot soup or tea in Three forms of water
winter. Water is found in three di erent forms. ese forms are liquid, solid and gas.

Activity • Creativity

 Take a plastic ice cream container.

 Fill the ice cream container with pineapple or orange juice, insert an ice cream stick on top
and put it in the freezer of your refrigerator.
 When frozen, take out and enjoy a refreshing flavoured ice.

Liquid Form of Water

e water we drink is in liquid form. Rainwater and the
water in ponds, lakes, rivers and oceans is in liquid form.

Solid Form of Water

Is ice solid, liquid or gas? Yes, it is solid. Snow and frost Ice cubes Ice cream

are other examples of water in the solid form. Liquid water Solid form of water
freezes at 0 degrees Celsius (0°C)

to become solid (ice). e process Knowledge Zone

of liquid water changing into solid 1. Celsius is a scale that measures temperature.

ice is called freezing. 2. Ice is frozen water while snow is small pieces
of frozen water that fall from the clouds
Gaseous Form of Water when the temperature of clouds becomes

Soak your hanky in water, wring very low.
out extra water and leave it in the 3. Frost is a thin white layer of ice that forms
on ground at night when temperature drops
sunlight. Observe it a er one hour. below 0°C.

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