Cycling of Matter -Water Cycle

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Which cycle involves condensation, evaporation, and precipitation?

• The water cycle

• The carbon cycle

• The nitrogen cycle

• The motor cycle

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True or False - All of the water on Earth is recycled through biogeochemical cycles.

• True

• False

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When water vapor is cooled and forms droplets of liquid water

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Runoff

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What is evaporation?

• The part of the water cycle when the sun heats up water, turning it from a liquid into water vapor or steam. It rises from the ground into the air.
• The part of the water cycle when the water vapor in the air gets cold. The water turns back into a liquid and forms clouds.
• The part of the water cycle when clouds get heavy and can no longer hold the liquid water. This causes the water to fall from the sky to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

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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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the correct definition for precipitation is

• water droplets condensing to form clouds

• water vapor released from plants to the sky

• water vapor rising to the sky from large bodies of water

• water falling from the sky in forms; rain, hail, sleet or snow

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What is an aquifer?

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.

• confining layer

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

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How does salt water from the ocean end up as fresh water in precipitation?

• Runoff leaves salt in the soil

• Precipitation leaves salt in the clouds

• Evaporation leaves salt in the ocean

• Condensation leaves salt in the water vapor

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Water gains energy during evaporation. During what process in the water cycle is this energy released?

• Infiltration/percolation through the soil

• Transpiration from plants

• Runoff into the lake and ocean

• Condensation that forms clouds

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Transpiration is the

• process by which grass grows in the summer months

• process by which plants absorb water through their roots and then release it through the pores on their leaves

• process by which water evaporates into the air through animals

• process by which salt water is purified

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Evaporation is...

• the process in which water turns into a solid

• the process by which the sun turns water into air

• the process by which water changes from a liquid state into a gas

• the process by which clouds form

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As water turns into water vapor and rises, it cools and becomes... pick the answer that shows the two forms of the water cycle

• evaporation -- transpiration

• transpiration -- evaporation

• precipitation -- condensation

• evaporation -- condensation

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The water cycle has no start or end

• True

• False

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Rain soaks into the ground

• Infiltration
• Condensation
• Throughflow
• Surface runoff

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What is the energy source for the water cycle?

• the Sun

• the Earth

• water

• the Moon

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Where is most water found on Earth?

• glaciers
• lakes
• rivers
• oceans

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Water flows along the surface. This happens if the ground is very hard or wet which makes it impermeable i.e. water cannot pass through. 

• Throughflow
• Infiltration
• Surface runoff
• Groundwater

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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 is the water cycle?

• the 3 forms of water
• the movement of water on, above, or below the surface of the Earth
• when water melts
• when clouds form

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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