Water Cycle Review

Which one describes evaporation?

• Water turns from a liquid into a gas and rises into the air.

• Water vapor in the air forms clouds of liquid droplets.

• Water in clouds falls down to Earth's surface.

• Water that falls to Earth's surface is absorbed into the ground.

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What are the three states of matter water can be in on Earth?

• hot, medium, and cold

• solid, liquid, and gas

• rain, snow, and hail

• lakes, rivers, and streams

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Why does most evaporation happen from the ocean?

Because...

• The sun shines on the ocean more strongly than it does anywhere else.

• The salty ocean water evaporates more easily than other water.

• The water in streams and rivers is moving too fast to evaporate.

• Most of the water on Earth is ocean water.

Without the sun, water would stop moving through the water cycle.

• True

• False

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Which one is NOT an example of precipitation?

• rain

• hail

• snow

• fog

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What is it called when water is just sitting in the ocean, a lake, a glacier, in the groundwater, or other body of water?

• runoff

• precipitation

• collection

• condensation

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What are some parts of the water cycle that are powered by gravity?

• precipitation, evaporation, and transpiration

• runoff, precipitation, and infiltration

• transpiration, sublimation, and groundwater

• condensation, groundwater, and evaporation

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Water that reaches a river always flows to the ocean next.

• True

• False

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Which one describes transpiration from plants?

• Water vapor is released through small holes in leaves called stomata.

• The roots of a plant absorb the water underground.

• Precipitation falls on the leaves of a plant and can't enter the groundwater.

• Trees and other large plants soak up water from the atmosphere.

Most of the clouds you see are made out of a gas called water vapor.

• True

• False

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