The Travels of Millie the Molecule
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This is Millie the water Molecule, you are going to travel with her on her great adventures through the water cycle. You will be traveling to all sorts of places from the ocean, to the clouds you see every day, so get ready and lets go!
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Millie’s adventure begins in the ocean, but soon she heats up with the heat energy from the sun and evaporates forming a cloud with millions of her friends.
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After a while her and her friends start to clump and gather together and they condense into a rain drop and slowly start falling due to the precipitation and gravity pulling them down (water).
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Normally Millie would just fall straight back into the ocean, but today she got lucky and fell into a lake.
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But no luck lasts forever, soon she is back in the form of a cloud (gas), and when she condenses she is right back where she started, the Ocean.
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This cycle goes on for a while but after a long time she travels somewhere she hasn’t been, when she rains down with all her friends she lands somewhere new she ends up in the soil but that doesn’t last long…
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She runs off the soil and is taken away by a river, as she gets pulls down by gravity she goes deeper and deeper filtering through the soil and into the ground water. She stays here for quite some time before finally…
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She filters back in to the river and is slowly pulled up to the surface by the pushing of all the other water molecules. But her adventure isn’t over yet, when an animal goes to get a drink, she is pulled up and swallowed.
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Soon, but not soon enough she is respirated through the animals body and evaporates back into the clouds. From there she condenses, and is back to the Ocean. Though Millie’s adventure will continue in cycles like this for millions of years to come, we are out of time and it would be too much work to continue to follow Millie on her ongoing adventures forever. Just remember that all water is recycled and even after you drink it it is filtered and reused, and who knows maybe someday Millie will end up in your glass of water.
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Published: Aug 31, 2018
Latest Revision: Aug 31, 2018
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