LockeD! - 5.8B - Suns Interaction with the Ocean #2

How does the sun affect the winds on the Earth?

• It causes evaporation of water

• It changes the air temperature

• It provides food for green plants

• It warms the magma inside the earth

Where does water in a lake get most of its energy to evaporate?

• The sun heating the lake

• Green plants living in the lake

• Streams entering the lake

• Cold springs under the lake

What process involves water vapor forming droplets that form clouds?

• Condensation

• Respiration

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

In the water cycle, water is returned to the surface of the Earth through –

• evaporation

• deposition

• precipitation

• condensation

As water moves through the water cycle, it may become –

• A solid

• A liquid

• A gas

• All of the above

What do we call the process that changes water vapor to liquid water?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Accumulation

• Precipitation

Water vapor exists in the atmosphere as—

• a visible gas

• a visible liquid

• an invisible gas

• an invisible liquid

The amount of heat energy in the Earth’s atmosphere is referred to as—

• Humidity

• Temperature

• Altitude

• Air pressure

When water vapor changes into liquid water, the process is called—

• Precipitation

• Accumulation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

The water cycle is a continuous process that takes place over and over. The water we use today is the same water that has been on the Earth since the beginning of the Earth itself. Plants, human beings, animals and changes in the environment are constantly putting the water back into the water cycle. What might happen if the cycle were broken and used water could not return to the water cycle?

• The Earth would flood all the time.

• The Earth would get colder and colder

• All life would end due to the lack of water

• The water cycle would continue as it is