Adventures Of A Water Molecule

Once Upon a Time, there was a little water

molecule. It was made of two hydrogen atoms

and one oxygen atom. This story is about the

adventures our friend the molecule and all the

trouble they got themselves into. They were a

liquid sometimes, a gas at others, and

sometimes, they were even a solid!

Our little friend started their adventures like so

many molecules do, in the ocean. They stayed

in the ocean a very long time.

They started feeling very sad. Then, on one

very hot day, the light energy of the sun

caused the water to heat up until finally they

were evaporated. They turned into water vapor

and rose to join a cloud.

The little molecule didn’t spend long in the

clouds before it and its friends condensed and

precipitated as snow. They landed on a giant sheet of

ice called a glacier. It was very cold, but they

wouldn’t be there for long.

Before they had time to solidify, the sun came

out again and our friend was evaporated and

back in the clouds before they even knew it.

The next time it rained, our friend landed in a

small patch of soil. Gravity pulled them into the

groundwater and they were there for an

unbearable amount of time. Finally, they

filtered into the nearby lake and met up with a

few of its old friends from the ocean. They

shared stories of their adventures. Soon a fox

came along and drank from the river. Our friend

didn’t like being excreted into the soil, but they

were free!

The runoff from the soil took them to the river

and flowed back to the ocean. It all looked so

different, but they couldn’t stay. They were

back in the clouds in no time. Our friend rained

on the soil and was absorbed by a plant. Just

before they could have been used by the plant,

transpiration saved them and they were back in

the clouds.

After being rained into the soil, pulled into the

groundwater and filtered into a river our friend

ended up inside another animal. This was their

least favorite place to be. Soon they were out

of that situation and were back in the clouds.

From there they found themselves in another

lake. This one flowed straight into a river. It

took a trip through the ocean and a lot of

traveling to get to where we see them now.

They are on top of a mountain frozen in a

glacier.

They have been frozen in that glacier for quite

a while now, but they find it nice and a relaxing

way to end a lengthy series of adventures. They

have had the time of their life. They’ve traveled

the world and met friends along the way.