Hydrology Test

What is the water cycle?

• The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean

• Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.

• The change of a liquid to a gas

• The change of state from a gas to a liquid

What is precipitation?

• The change of a liquid to a gas

• the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants.

• Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.

• Water runs down into the hydrosphere

Collection of water on the earth can be in the form?

• Oceans.

• Lakes

• Rivers

• All of the above

What is the process in which clouds let water go as rainfall called?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Rain

Which human activity can alter the water cycle

• Industrialization

• Deforestation

• Farming

• All above

Which area will have low runoff?

• Forest

• Urban

• Digging

• Factory area

What is sublimation?

• gas > solid

• water > gas

• solid > gas

• solid > water

What is evaporation?

• liquid > gas

• gas > liquid

• water > solid

• solid > water

The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

• Aquifer

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

Which is hydrology process?

• Evaporation

• Forest

• Digging

• River