Water Cycle and Watersheds Quiz

Where is most water found on the Earth? 

• In Glaciers
• In Lakes
• In Rivers
• In the Ocean

What is water doing when it is changed to water vapor? 

• Evaporating
• Condensing
• Precipitating

What is water doing when it changes to water? 

• Evaporating
• Condensing
• Precipitating

What controls whether water is a gas, liquid, or solid ice? 

• the shape or size of the cup
• where it has been stored
• if it is being used for irrigation
• what its temperature is 

Predict what might happen to a river when heavy rains soak the soil near it.  The river will 

• sink
• rise
• freeze
• not change

When plants lose water into the atmosphere as a gas, this is called. . .

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• transpiration

Water Droplets in clouds become heavy and fall back to earth

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• transpiration

An area of land where the surface water and ground water drain into a particular body of water.

• aquifer
• watershed
• subsidence
• divide

A ___________________ is the area of land that collects runoff and channels it into a main river.

• rill
• gully
• stream channel
• watershed

A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another 

• bank
• cliff
• divide
• partition