Unit 4 Summative Review

What is the process called when water changes from a liquid to a gas?

• evaporation

• condensation

• transpiration

• precipitation

When water vapor cools down it condenses into a _____.

• none of these are correct

• gas

• liquid

• solid

What provides energy in the water cycle?

• humans

• the sun

• the moon tides

• gravitational pull

When a plant releases water from its leaves it is called?

• lithification

• evaporation

• transpiration

• transportation

What percentage of Earth's surface is water? (Type only the number of the percentage.)

What percentage of all water is fresh water?

• 50%

• 97%

• 3%

• 30%

When water is used by companies and corporations to make products, it is called?

• industrial use

• domestic use

• agricultural use

Which best explains why run off is important?

• it returns water to other locations on Earth

• it increases the chance of flooding

• it makes evaporation occur faster

• it increases condensation

How do clouds form?

• water condenses and falls back to Earth as precipitation

• water evaporates into the atmosphere and condenses into small water droplets

• water evaporates into the atmosphere and freezes into hail

• water runs off into oceans and evaporates into the atmosphere

In which sphere of Earth would you find the crust, sediments, and sedimentary rock?

• biosphere

• atmosphere

• lithosphere

• hydrosphere