Water Cycle Quiz

What is Precipitation?

• Water falling from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, etc.
• Liquid Water turning into Water Vapor
• Solid Ice turning into Water Vapor
• Water Stored in the ground

Ice being transformed directly in water vapor is called

• evaporation
• sublimation
• precipitation
• deposition

Water Vapor being transformed into a solid (ice). 

• Precipation
• Deposition
• Sublimation
• Evaporation

The gaseous form of water.

• liquid water
• ice
• water vapor

The process in which water is evaporated through plants and plant processes.

• condensation
• respiration
• transpiration
• photosynthesis

When water seeps into the ground it is called

• groundwater
• infiltration
• snow melt
• aquifer

When water moves across the top of Earth's surface into a major water storage area it is called

• infiltration
• surface runoff
• aquifer
• groundwater

When snow or ice turns into a liquid water form it is called

• precipitating
• melting
• boiling
• freezing

Large areas of rock that contain or transmit groundwater are called

• aquifers
• runoffs
• stream flows
• clouds

Water held under the surface of the Earth is called

• stream flow
• aquifer
• snow melt
• groundwater