Water Cycle

The water cycle involves what type of change as water cycles around the Earth?

• exothermic

• chemical

• molecular

• physical

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is water in the form of a gas?

• ice

• vapor

• reservoir

• aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The energy source that powers the water cycle is ________.

• the sun

• wind

• magma from the Earth's core

• the ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Condensation occurs in the atmosphere because temperature increases with altitude, causing water to turn from a gas to a liquid.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Water in the Earth's atmosphere falls to earth's surface.

• precipitation

• runoff

• condensation

• infiltration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Water passes through plants and out of pores in the leaves up into the atmosphere.

• evaporation

• transpiration

• percolation

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water that does not absorb into the soil and does not evaporate that moves across Earth's atmosphere into a reservoir.

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Phase change from a gas to a liquid.

• precipitation

• condensation

• infiltration

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Water on the Earth's surface that enters the soil.

• infiltration

• percolation

• runoff

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Phase change from a liquid to a gas in which water enters the atmosphere.

• condensation

• infiltration

• evaporation

• percolation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4