Margaret Jukes, age 12p of St. Catharines 0ntario:

Nada Lyman age 6  of Denver s CO.

Where does water go when it evaporates?

This is hard to believe, but runny water is made of tiny tiny bits.  They are far too small for you to see, There are billions and billions of them in every drop of water. Each of these bitsy pieces is exactly alike. They all act in exactly the same way, Sometimes they turn into ice, Sometimes they stay liquid and sometimes they float off in the air. This depends on the temperature how hot or cold it is.

The temperature is usually right for water to stay liquid. Then the bitsy pieces cling together in a runny mass, When the weather drops to freezing point, the runny water turns into solid ice, When you boil the water, some of the little bits take off into the air and become water vapor. We cannot see this because it is a gas and it mixes with the other gases in the air,

Evaporating water is like boiling water. Some of the little bits near the surface take off into the air and float away as gas, The warm sun evaporates water into the air alb, the time. It floats around as vapor until it cools. Then it turns into little droplets of water, The clouds are made of these water droplets. Sooner or later the droplets collect into big drops and come tumbling down to the ground as rain. All our rain comes from water that was once evaporated from the seas  the rivers, the puddles and the wet laundry on the clothes line.