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The movement of water
Online Lesson | 04 Sep 2026 | Start: 18:00 | DURATION: 2 HOURS Specification content
3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Processes driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers: evaporation, condensation, cloud formation, causes of precipitation and cryospheric processes - at hill slope, drainage basin and global scales with reference to varying timescales involved.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:
- That on Earth water exists in three forms: solid ice, liquid water and gaseous water vapor, and identify the factors that move water between these different states and stores.
- The idea of latent heat and energy in the context of evaporation and condensation, and how they relate to major atmospheric processes like cloud formation and precipitation.
- Different forms of precipitation in the UK and other areas of the world, such as the tropics.
- Cryospheric processes: concept of glacial and interglacial periods and the impact on the cryosphere.
- That the water cycle operates at different scales.
Suggested timing
2 hours
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Course Module: Water and carbon cycles (Autumn 1) | Lesson The movement of water:
Online Lesson | 04 Sep 2026 | Start: 18:00 | DURATION: 2 HOURS
Specification content
3.1.1.2 The water cycle
Processes driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers: evaporation, condensation, cloud formation, causes of precipitation and cryospheric processes - at hill slope, drainage basin and global scales with reference to varying timescales involved.
Learning outcomes
This lesson will help students to understand:
- That on Earth water exists in three forms: solid ice, liquid water and gaseous water vapor, and identify the factors that move water between these different states and stores.
- The idea of latent heat and energy in the context of evaporation and condensation, and how they relate to major atmospheric processes like cloud formation and precipitation.
- Different forms of precipitation in the UK and other areas of the world, such as the tropics.
- Cryospheric processes: concept of glacial and interglacial periods and the impact on the cryosphere.
- That the water cycle operates at different scales.
Suggested timing
2 hours
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