Water Cycle

Which of the water cycle words should be inside the red box?

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Are animals part of the water cycle?

• Yes

• No

Once enough water has condensed in the clouds, it falls in liquid form as rain. This is called

• evaporation

• transpiration

• precipitation

• condensation

What is the most common form of precipitation?

• Rain

• Hail

• Sleet

• Snow

What do you call the process of water moving through a plant and evaporating from leaves, stems and flowers. (Spelling counts!)

What is a porous body of rock underground that allows the storage of groundwater?

• reservoir
• groundwater flow
• aquifer
• lake

What is runoff?

• water released by factories and farms back into the environment
• slow flowing water in rivers and streams that flows to the ocean
• water that cannot be absorbed by the ground so it flows across the land
• fast flowing water that fills up lakes and ponds

What does potable mean?

• able to be stored underground
• safe for drinking and human use
• unsafe for drinking or human use
• evaporates easily

How can a lake or reservoir naturally lose its water?

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Transpiration
• Accumulation

True or False: If soil is saturated, that means it is full of water.

• True
• False