The Water Cycle

What is the water cycle?

• A way water moves through the sky

• The repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms.

• The way water moves from the atmosphere to the biosphere.

• The movement of water in a small space.

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Which of the following occurs during condesation.

• Liquid water turns to water vapor.

• It rains, snows, sleets or hails.

• Clouds form

• Water vapor turns into hail.

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Which of the following is an example of evaporation?

• Billy takes a shower and when he gets out, the mirror is foggy.

• Sally puts a bowl of water outside fro her dog, a few hours later the water is not there anymore.

• Charlie is walking home and notices it is drizzling.

• Hank checks the news and sees that tomorrow will be cloudy

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What would you call raining, hailing, or snowing?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Traspiration

• Precipitation

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What is water that is not soaked into the ground and flows over Earth's surface?

• Transpiration

• Runoff

• Condensation

• Accumulation

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What is water that soaks into the ground?

• Transpiration

• Accumulation

• Groundwater

• Runoff

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Which of the following is transpiration?

• When water is soaked into a plant.

• When water is evaporated from a large body of water.

• When water evaporates from the leaves of plants.

• When water is soaked into the ground.

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What is Sublimation?

• When liquid water freezes into ice

• When water vapor turns into liquid water

• When ice or snow changes directly to water vapor without melting first.

• When ice evaporates into liquid water.

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What is the power source of the water cycle?

• The atmosphere

• The Sun

• The Biosphere

• The Moon

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What is Rain?

• Water vapor that evaporates from plants.

• Liquid droplets condensed from atmospheric water vapor that becomes heavy enough to fall due to gravity.

• Water that is evaporated from the leaves of plants through transpiration.

• Runoff that is accumulated into a large body of water then evaporated into the atmosphere, continuing the water cycle.

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