4/2/07
My Travels as a Water Molecule
I am a water droplet, also known as H2O. This means I have two Hydrogen and one Oxygen. I am a traveler, always moving, never stopping in an endless cycle. This is called the water cycle. As a water droplet I have changed into many different forms through different processes.
My story begins in a stream. I was traveling down a stream, flossing between cracks in rocks, and making my way downhill with the current. I am in my liquid form, so I flow easily, and have a definite volume, but not a definite shape. The sun comes overhead, it being about noon. I feel the heat of the sun's rays beating down upon the river bank where I am being swiftly carried along.
I feel myself begin to change. My watery self, becomes a gas, slowly rises upward. I feel free, and more of my fellow water-droplets rise with me. I arrive in a cloud. It really is moist up here! I travel in the cloud, it carrying me across the land.
Soon I feel myself start to become heavy, my gaseous H2O self becoming liquid again. As I change yet again, I fall down to the earth landing on top of a steep mountain top. I stay on the Mountain top resting for a time before I soak into the ground.
Trapped beneath the soil, but not permanently, I become a part of groundwater. Though the soil, I travel, and am pumped out of the ground from a well. I find myself being carried toward the plants, irrigating the soil.
I am a part of the fruit that the plant has produced, giving it one of its needed ingredients to survive. Before the farmer could scare off the rabbit, it feasted on the fruit and me along with it. After using me to process food the rabbit climbed the mountain. When the animal has fully processed me, I come out as urine. You may think this is gross, but it is part of the cycle.
Going back into the mountain, I roll down a stream, carrying me to the bottom. Soon I find myself in the ocean, mixing with the salt. I am now one of countless water molecules in the ocean, and I stay there.
However, my adventures don't end there, they continue. Why? Because it is a cycle, and cycles do not end. Sooner or later I will find myself back in a stream or in clouds. The cycle takes me different places, and my adventures never end. And that, my friends, is my life as a water droplet.
A/N: This was for a chemistry homework assignment. I actually did this a while ago, but I just now got around to posting. Typical of me.