Water Cycle

What is it called when water is heated in the ocean by the sun and turns into water vapor?

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

When plants give off drops of water it is called _____________.

• transpiration

• condensation

• evaporation

• electricity

Forms of precipitation are:

• only sleet and snow

• only dew, mists, and rain

• only rain

• rain, sleet, snow, and hail

When water flows back into the ocean it is called _________.

• run-off

• precipitation

• transpiration

• evaporation

After condensation, the droplets of water in the clouds fall to Earth in different forms of _____________________.

• electricity

• precipitation

• evaporation

• condensation

The __________________ is the driving force of the Earth's weather.

• moon

• sun

• stars

• planets

Precipitation occurs because ____________________________.

• the droplets evaporate in the air

• the droplets are too heavy for the air to hold

• the droplets are too light for the air to hold

• because the clouds say so

The process where water vapor is cooled and forms droplets is called ________________________.

• run-off

• transpiration

• condensation

• evaporation

The water cycle has no start or end.

• True

• False

Clouds contain water vapor.

• True

• False