The Water Cycle Unit Test

You set up the following experiment. Inside the glass bowl is a smaller bowl and water. The glass bowl is covered with cling wrap, held in place by a rubber band, with a weight on the outside of the wrap.

Which part of the water cycle causes the water droplets to form on the cling wrap?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

There are four types of precipitation. Two of these types are liquid and two are solid. Which two forms of precipitation listed below is solid precipitation?

• Sleet and rain

• Hail and rain

• Hail and sleet

• Rain and snow

What process is shown in Part A when water moves from the ocean to the atmosphere?

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

• Evaporation

What is the ocean’s main role in the Water Cycle?

• The ocean has a key role because it is a source of water and a storage unit for water.

• Not very important, as glaciers and ice sheets provide most of the water needed for the water cycle.

• Not very important, because the ocean is made out of salt water.

• Lakes and rivers have a more important role than the ocean, because they are made of fresh water.

What is the main source of energy that powers the Water Cycle?

• The clouds

• The sun

• The land

• The ocean

What process is shown when clouds are beginning to form?

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

• Evaporation

What is runoff?

• Water that has condesed on a cool surface appearing as small droplets, especially overnight.

• Precipitation that flows off the land into streams, rivers, lakes, and other collections of water?

• Change of a liquid, such as water, into vaper.

Water beneath the earth's surface is called?

• groundwater

• transpiration

• evaporation

• conserve

What is the process by which water is transferred into the atmosphere from a plant surface, such as a leaf?

• aquifer

• precipitation

• dew

• transpiration

Maria’s class is studying the water cycle. Maria draws a diagram of the cycle shown below. The arrows over the ocean are showing what?

• condensation

• evaporation

• infiltration

• precipitation