Water Cycle

What source of energy evaporates the most water from Earth's surface? 

• Volcanoes
• Sun
• Lightening
• Wind

What is water doing when it is changed to water vapor? 

• Evaporating
• Condensing
• Precipitating

What is water doing when it changes to water? 

• Evaporating
• Condensing
• Precipitating

Many Utah towns use water from wells for drinking.  How does water get into wells? 

• it has to be poured into them from water tanks
• rain sinks down through the soil into them 
• it is pumped by large engines into the well
• it evaporates from inside the Earth

River, streams and oceans are all points of _____________ in the water cycle.

• collection 
• precipitation
• condensation
• evaporation

Water cycle

• the process in which a liquid turns to a gas

• the giving off of water vapor by plants

• to unload or empty the contents of something

• the repeated changes that water goes through on the earth; includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and collection

Evaporation

• the process in which a liquid turns to a gas

• the giving off of water vapor by plants

• to unload or empty the contents of something

• the repeated changes that water goes through on the earth; includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and collection

Answer explanation

Transpiration

• the process in which a liquid turns to a gas

• the giving off of water vapor by plants

• to unload or empty the contents of something

• the repeated changes that water goes through on the earth; includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and collection

Answer explanation

The process by which water vapor turns from a gas to a liquid

• evaporation

• condensation

• collection

• precipitation

Answer explanation

This is when water that falls from the clouds as rain, snow, hail or sleet, collects in the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. Most will infiltrate (soak into) the ground and will collect as underground water.

• evaporation

• transpiration

• collection

• groundwater discharge

Answer explanation