Choose the best claim that explains how the sun drives the water cycle (choose 1).

The sun is the source of energy that powers the water cycle and its processes including: evaporation and transpiration.

The sun is the source of energy that powers the water cycle and all its processes including: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, infiltration, and runoff.

The sun is not a source of energy that powers the water cycle and its processes.

The sun is the source of energy that powers the water cycle and its processes including: precipitation, infiltration, and runoff.

Choose the best answers that are evidence that support the claim in number 10 (choose all that apply).

The sun warms water enough to make it become a gas called water vapor.

Plants open their pores to let water vapor into the atmosphere while breathing in carbon dioxide which then evaporates because of the sun.

The sun causes water in the ocean to evaporate.

When water vapor cools because of the sun, it begins to condense.

The sun makes precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, hail) fall back to Earth.

Choose the scientific reasoning that includes the claim from number 10 and the evidence from number 11. (choose 1)

The sun’s energy is required in order for the water cycle to work. Without the sun’s energy, water would not be able to evaporate from the surface or transpire from the plants. These steps are needed for the rest of the water cycle processes to work properly and only the sun’s can cause evaporation and transpiration to happen.

The sun is not what makes the water cycle work. The sun is only one part of the water cycle, the system does not depend solely on the sun. There are other processes that power the water cycle.

The sun is what makes the it work. This provides what almost everything on Earth needs to go. Heat causes liquid and frozen water to let it go into water vapor gas, which rises high in the sky to form clouds.

The sun is responsible for making all the processes of the water cycle working including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, infiltration, and runoff. If the sun does not heat the water, none of these things can happen. Once it evaporates, the condensation can then fall back to the ground as precipitation.

Which sentence would be a good example sentence in your raindrop story that explains the water cycle

I was a raindrop in the ocean until the sun heated me up and evaporated me into the atmosphere.

Once upon a time I was a little raindrop.

I go so cold in the cloud that I fell down as snow and that is called transpiration

Which sentence would be a good example sentence in your raindrop story that explains the water cycle

I started my life as a drop of water in a plant but that did not last long as the sun heated me and I transpired into the air.

I began my life as a drop of groundwater but then I precipitated onto a mountain

Gravity pulled me off my cloud and into the lake.

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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Check all the ones that are the basic components of the water cycle.

sun

plants

gravity

evaporation

houses

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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Check all the ones that are the basic components of the water cycle.

animals

landforms

solar system

gravity

atmosphere

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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Pick any of the phases of the hydrologic cycle that are driven by the sun’s energy.

percolation

transpiration

evaporation

condensation

runoff

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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Pick any of the phases of the hydrologic cycle that are driven by the force of gravity.

percolation

transpiration

precipitation

condensation

runoff

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which process of the water cycle are the arrows pointing to?

evaporation

condensation

transpiration

runoff

percolation

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which process of the water cycle is the arrow pointing to?

evaporation

condensation

transpiration

runoff

percolation

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which process of the water cycle are the arrows pointing to?

evaporation

condensation

transpiration

crystallization

percolation

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