Word Warriors - Quiz #1

A form of water such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail that condenses in the atmosphere and falls to the earth’s surface

• transpiration
• evaporation
• infiltration
• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The act of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc

• hydrosphere
• contamination
• runoff
• transpiration

The continuous circular process in which water evaporates, condenses, precipitates or falls back to earth, and returns to the ocean in runoffs or streams.

• hydrosphere
• lithosphere
• condensation
• hydrologic cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere ).

• hydrosphere
• runoff
• lithosphere
• groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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The process of changing from a liquid or a solid into vapor (gas)

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process of giving off water vapor and other gases by  plants into the atmosphere

• evaporation
• condensation
• transpiration
• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the act or process of changing a gas or a vapor into a liquid

• contamination
• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation

The water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere.

• groundwater
• runoff
• lithosphere
• hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Something that drains or flows off, as rain that flows off from the land in streams.

• groundwater
• runoff
• precipitation
• hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.

• runoff
• groundwater
• infiltration
• percolate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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