Hydrosphere: Water Cycle, Resources, Uses & Management

Which of Earth's spheres includes all of the water on or near Earth's surface?

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

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The continuous movement of water into the air, onto land, and then back to water sources is known as the -

• water cycle

• rock cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• carbon cycle

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The process by which liquid water is heated by the sun and then rises into the atmosphere as water vapor is called -

• salinity

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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The process by which water vapor forms droplets on dust particles is called -

• salinity

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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Water droplets form clouds, in which the droplets collide, stick together, and create larger heavier droplets. These larger droplets fall from clouds as rain in a process called -

• salinity

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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The Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Southern Ocean and the Indian Ocean are all joined to form a single, large, interconnected body of water called the -

• super ocean

• geological ocean

• continental ocean

• world ocean

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The concentration of all the dissolved salts contained in the ocean is termed its -

• salinity

• infinity

• precipitate

• residue

Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean, and can influence climates of land areas they flow past, are called -

• surface currents

• deep currents

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Streamlike movements of water that flow very slowly along the ocean floor and form when the cold, dense water from the poles sinks below the warmer less dense ocean water and flows towards the equator, are called -

• surface currents

• deep currents

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Most of the freshwater is locked up in -

• icecaps and glaciers

• streams and rivers

• soil

• rock layers

• wetlands

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