Weather and Climate Review

Evaporation, condensation and precipitation are all parts of what?

• The atmosphere
• The Vapor Cycle
• The Precipitation Cycle
• The Water Cycle

Rain that returns to lakes or oceans by flowing along the surface is known as

• Precipitation
• Surface Runoff
• Condensation
• infiltration

When water becomes to heavy for the clouds to hold and falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail, we are experiencing ...

• Evaporation
• Transpiration
• Precipitation
• Condensation

What causes evaporation to occur?

• small water droplets are heated causing it to snow
• water vapor is cooled in our atmosphere
• Water is heated by the sun causing it to change into water vapor
• Water seeps into the ground and runs off into larger bodies of water.

Water vapor cools and forms visible droplets of water in which stage of the water cycle/

• runoff
• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation

Mary leaves a glass of water outside on her deck. After 3 days the water in the glass is gone. What most likely happened to the glass of water?

• it turned into ice
• it melted
• it was soaked up by a sponge
• it turned into water vapor

The process of evaporation from the leaves of plants and trees is called

• transpiration
• precipitation
• Infiltration
• condensation

When liquid water evaporates into the air it becomes a gas known as

• dew
• carbon
• oxygen
• water vapor

We have the same amount of water on earth as we did a million years ago.

• True
• False

What energy sources "drives" the water cycle?

• Tides
• Gravity
• moon rays
• heat from the sun