Water Cycle

Pick the one that is in order

• Evaporation Precipitation Condensation

• Condensation evaporation precipitation

• Precipitation condensation evaporation

• Evaporation condensation precipitation

Which of the following processes within the water cycle is responsible for changing water from a liquid to a gas?

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Groundwater flow

• Surface runoff

How much of Earth's surface is covered by water?

• 3%

• 50%

• 70%

• 85%

What percentage of global precipitation falls on the land compared to the oceans?

• 13%

• 22%

• 35%

• 48%

Rain gauges collect and measure the amount of rain that falls on a particular spot. If you collected all the rain gauges in the world and placed them side-by-side, they would cover an area the size of:

• A backyard swimming pool

• a basketball court

• a city block

• The State of Rhode Island