The Water Cycle 1 - 3rd Grade

True or False:

Every glass of water you have ever drank has been through the water cycle countless times.

• True

• False

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The world's water moves between...

• lakes, rivers, and oceans

• the air

• the land

• all of the above

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The endless process of water being used and reused throughout the Earth is called...

• the life cycle

• the spin cycle

• the water cycle

• the bicycle

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When the sun heats up the water on land and bodies of water, the water rises into the air as...

• rain

• vapor

• snow

• sleet

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The process of the water in the air cooling and coming together from gas back to droplets of water is...

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

• Transpiration

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The bigger, heavier water droplets then fall to the ground in a process called...

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

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When the water that fell gathers or collects in lakes, rivers, and oceans, we call that process...

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Accumulation

• Transpiration

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As water moves through it's various stages of the cycle, it can take on the form of a...

• solid

• liquid

• gas (or vapor)

• All of the above

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Plants also lose their water to the air through a process called...

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Accumulation

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When the water moves over land directly, that water is referred to as...

• surface roll off

• surface runoff

• surfin runoff

• surface shmurface

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