The Water Cycle - Basic

What effect does the sun have on surface water?

• It causes it to boil

• It causes it to rain

• It causes it to sink

• It causes it to evaporate

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When water vapor is cooled and forms droplets of liquid water

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Runoff

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Precipitation occurs because 

• the droplets evaporate in the air
• the droplets are too light for the air to hold
• the droplets are too heavy for the air to hold

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When water turns into a gas

• condensation 
• evaporation
• precipitation

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What step of the water cycle does this picture show?

• Condensation

• Runoff

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

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What are formed when water vapor condenses and come together?

• Clouds

• Mountains

• Transpiration

• Valleys

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Which of these is an example of precipitation?

• snow
• air
• clouds
• vapor

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Evaporation is when _________________________________________________________

• water freezes

• water changes 

  from a gas to a 

  liquid   

• water changes 

  from liquid to a 

  gas

•  plants use the 

  water from the rain

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Constant movement of water is called________

• water runoff 

•      precipitation

• condensation

• the water cycle

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The water that falls from the clouds is_____

• evaporation

•   condensation 

• transpiration

• precipitation 

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