The Water Cycle

What do water droplets form?

• clouds
• condensation
• nutrients
• humidity

What is the process in which water vapor changes to liquid?

• transpiration
• evaporation
• runoff
• condensation

What would most likely happen if it didn't rain in a certain area for a long period of time?

• Animals and plants would live the same way they always do.
• Animals would drink all the water and leave none for the plants.
• Plants would die, and animals would't receive nutrients from plants.
• Nutrients would find a different way of getting to plants and animals.

What is transpiration?

• The process in which plants release water through their leaves back into the air.
• The process in which humans release sweat through their skin back into the air.
• What happens when water vapor turns into a liquid.
• The scientific name for the water cycle.

Which of these describes evaporation?

• Water vapor becomes a liquid.
• Plants lose water through their leaves.
• What goes up must come down.
• Water warms up and becomes a vapor.

What is the water cycle?

• The process through which water evaporates.
• The path water takes from Earth to the clouds and back again.
• The path water takes from the mountain top to the soil.
• The process of water falling from the clouds.

What is precipitation?

• The sweat from our bodies on hot days.
• The gas that we use in furnaces and ovens.
• Any form of water that falls from the sky.
• Warm rain, but not cold snow or sleet.

What is the driving energy force behind the water cycle?

• The rain
• The sun
• The wind
• Erosion