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You can unscramble words to make eight sentences about water.

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Rain and snow are key elements in the Earth's water cycle, which is vital to all life on Earth. Rainfall is the main way that the water in the skies comes down to Earth, where it fills our lakes and rivers, recharges the underground aquifers, and provides drinks to plants and animals.

Rain does not fall in the same amounts throughout the world or even in different parts of the United States. Here in Georgia it rains fairly evenly all during the year (especially during weekends, holidays, and picnics), around 40-50 inches per year. But the rain we get in one month might be more than Las Vegas, Nevada gets all year. The world's record for rain belongs to Mt. Waialeale, Hawaii, where it averages about 450 inches per year, and it even received 642 inches during one twelve-month period (that's almost 2 inches every day!). Contrast that to Iquique, Chile, where no rain fell for 14 years (no mosquito problem, at least).

On average, the 48 continental United States receives enough precipitation in one year to cover the land to a depth of 30 inches. That works out to about 1,430 cubic miles of water, which would have a weight (at about 62.4 pounds per cubic foot) or about 6.6 billion tons. The United States is fortunate to be a country where ample rainfall occurs over much of the land area.