Water Cycle Quiz

1) An example of salt water is

• a lake

• a river

• an ocean

• tap water

Most of the Earth’s water is found in

• glaciers.

• lakes.

• oceans.

• rivers

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3) When the sun heats up the surface of a puddle of water, the water

• condenses.

• evaporates.

• infiltrates

• precipitates.

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4) Rain happens when droplets of water

• condense.

• evaporate

• freeze

• melt

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5) Three percent of the water on Earth is freshwater. Less than 0.5% of all the freshwater on Earth is found

• underground.

• in aquifers.

• in rivers and lakes.

• frozen, in ice caps and glaciers.

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This is a picture of a body of freshwater that is surrounded by land. It is similar to a pond, but is larger in size. What is this body of water called?

• lake

• ocean

• river

• stream

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7) Rivers, springs, and aquifers are all fresh water components of the hydrologic cycle. As this water progresses through the cycle, it will eventually ___________ into the atmosphere before ____________ and falling back to the earth as precipitation.

• condense; evaporating

• evaporate; condensing

• dissolve; cloud-forming

• condense; precipitating

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8) What causes the evaporation process of the water cycle where water from the ocean's surface is transformed into vapor?

• Sun

• Moon

• wind

• waves

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What does the graph tell us about the humidity in any given location on Earth?

• The warmer the air temperature, the greater the humidity.

• The warmer the temperature, the more likely for precipitation.

• Humidity depends on how close a location is to a body of water.

• As temperature rises, the amount of water vapor in the air decreases.

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97.5% of all the water on Earth is salt water. Fresh water is distributed on Earth as seen in the bar graph above. What can we say about MOST of the freshwater on Earth?

• Most of the water is easy to find and use.

• We cannot use most of it because it is frozen.

• Most of the freshwater is home to animals and plants.

• We must drill wells to use it because it is underground.

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