Semester 2 Review

What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• transpiration

During which stage do clouds form?

• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation

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What is the process during which water cools and turns from a gas to a liquid?

• Codensation
• Runoff
• Precipitation
• Evaporation

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The ________ is the driving force of the earth's surface.

• sun
• moon 
• stars

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Precipitation occurs because 

• the droplets evaporate in the air
• the droplets are too light for the air to hold
• the droplets are too heavy for the air to hold

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What is a layer of rock or sediment that holds water?

• glacier
• well
• aquifer
• natural spring

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Rain soaks into the ground

• Infiltration
• Condensation
• Throughflow
• Surface runoff

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_________________ is precipitation that did not evaporate or get absorbed into soil.

• Inflitration
• Condensation
• Sublimation
• Runoff

Water that is beneath earth's surface 

• groundwater 
• infiltration
• runoff
• transpiration 

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Some of the water that precipitates does not runoff into the rivers and is absorbed by the plants or gets evaporated. It moves deep into the soil. What is this process called?

• Sublimation
• Transpiration
• Runoff
• Infiltration

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