Water Cycle

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What effect does the sun have on surface water?

• It causes it to boil

• It causes it to rain

• It causes it to sink

• It causes it to evaporate

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When water vapor is cooled and forms droplets of liquid water

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Runoff

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Precipitation occurs because 

• the droplets evaporate in the air
• the droplets are too light for the air to hold
• the droplets are too heavy for the air to hold

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When water turns into a gas

• condensation 
• evaporation
• precipitation

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What is water that flows in rivers and streams into the oceans and lakes?

• evaporating
• condensing
• precipitating
• runoff

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What is precipitation?

• Sweat from our bodies on hot days

• Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet

• Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens

• Any form of water that falls from the sky

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The process when plants release water vapor from their leaves is called _____________.

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

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What step of the water cycle does this picture show?

• Condensation

• Runoff

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

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The water cycle has

• a beginning and an end. 
• no beginning an no end. 
• only a beginning. 
• only an end. 

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What source of energy evaporates the most water from Earth’s surface?

• volcanoes
• the sun
• lightning
• wind

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What are formed when water vapor condenses and come together?

• Clouds

• Mountains

• Transpiration

• Valleys

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Which is the opposite of condensation?

• runoff
• evaporation
• precipitation
• transpiration

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Water in its gas form is called ____________________,

• water vapor

• precipitation

• ice

• air

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Rain and snow are two different forms of precipitation that fall on Earth's surface. Which factor is responsible for there being different forms of precipitation?

• Evaporation

• Run-off

• Temperature

• Transpiration

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What do we call it when water evaporates, condenses, then precipitates to the earth and then repeats?

• A Bicycle.
• The Life Cycle of a butterfly.
• The Water Cycle.
• All of the answers.

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Aquifers are __________.

• not a part of the water cycle

• underground water

• caused by evaporation

• none of the above

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Freshwater that is stored in the form of snow and ice.

• Frozen Water
• Aquifer
• Atmosphere
• Snowmelt

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During evaporation, water changes from a _________ to a __________.

• solid, liquid

• gas, liquid

• liquid, gas

• liquid, solid

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Which of these is not an example of precipitation?

• rain
• clouds
• sleet
• snow

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When precipitation falls to the ground and soaks into the soil through spaces and cracks in the rocks, this process is called ___________.

• condensation

• runoff

• groundwater

• infiltration