Hydrologic cycle

Imagine you're a tiny water droplet, ready to embark on a grand adventure! Your journey begins when you transform from a liquid into a gas or vapor, soaring into the sky to join the atmospheric water. What's this exciting process called?

• Transpiration

• Deposition

• Percolation

• Evaporation

________________ is the movement of water past the soil, going deep into the groundwater.

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Percolation

• Sublimation

Imagine you're a tiny raindrop, falling from the sky. You land on the ground and start to seep into the soil. This process is called Infiltration, and it's how soil absorbs rainfall or irrigation. But how fast can you, as a raindrop, infiltrate the soil? That's what we call the Infiltration rate in soil science!

• Infiltration

• Percolation

• Deposition

• Condensation

Guess what? _________________ is the magical process where water is released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. It's like the postman of the water cycle, delivering atmospheric water right to our doorstep on Earth. Most of the time, this special delivery comes as rain. Can you name this process?

• Snowmelt runoff

• Precipitation

• Surface runoff

• Evaporation

Imagine you're a tiny particle, hopping from one state to another. You're special because you can jump from being a solid directly to a gaseous state, skipping the liquid phase entirely! This magical process is called _____________. It's super cool, especially when you think about how snow and ice can turn into water vapor in the air without even needing to melt first. What's this process called?

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Snowmelt runoff

• Sublimation

Imagine you're a tiny water droplet in a plant's root. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to journey all the way up to the small pores on the underside of the leaves, change into vapor, and release into the atmosphere. What is this thrilling process called?

• Transpiration

• Percolation

• Infiltration

• Plant Uptake

Water flows across the land, enters rivers and streams, and eventually flows into lakes and the ocean.

• Snowmelt runoff

• Surface Runoff

• Deposition

• Precipitation

What is the term for the ability of water to flow through rocks and sediments?

• Porosity

• Permeability

• Percolation

• Infiltration

Which step of the hydrologic cycle is responsible for transporting pollution from farms into nearby streams, rivers, and eventually to lakes?

• Run-off

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

The large underground bodies of water containing fresh water, used by humans, are called:

• Aquifers

• Runoffs

• Ponds

• Collections