Earth's Water Cycle & Water Distribution

Humans need water to survive. Of all the water found on Earth, how much of it is fresh water?

• more than 70%

• about 3%

• about 30%

• less than 1%

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following is a process used by plants to release excess water into the atmosphere?

• precipitation

• erosion

• transpiration

• perspiration

When the sun heats water in rivers, lakes, and oceans, it evaporates and changes from a liquid to a gas. Once the gaseous water (water vapor) reaches the upper atmosphere, it cools and can fall back down to Earth as precipitation. In which state or states of matter can precipitation (ex. rain, sleet, snow, hail) exist?

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• plasma

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

97% of Earth's water is contained in a single reservoir (or place). The remaining 3% is made up of many other reservoirs. What reservoir contains 97% of Earth's water?

• glacier

• groundwater

• ocean

• freshwater lake

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is primarily responsible for the movement of water on Earth?

• heat energy and gravity

• farming

• snow and ice

• transpiration and precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What process is demonstrated as liquid water heated and turned into water vapor?

• surface runoff

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Most of earth's fresh water is contained in

• bubbles

• glaciers and ice caps

• surface run off

• trees

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following cycles tracks the movement of the hydrosphere?

• the rock cycle

• the nitrogen cycle

• the water cycle

• the hydrogen cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A certain area received a large amount of rain and some of it remained on top of the soil. What happened to the rest of this water?

• condensed to form clouds

• seeped into the ground

• used by plants

• evaporated into the air

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

__________________ is the primary process that moves water from the liquid state back into the atmosphere as water vapor.

• sublimation

• evaporation

• condensation

• transpiration

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