Water Cycle Quiz

An underground layer of sand, gravel or rock that stores and carries water

• water table

• water cycle

• aquifer

• Infiltration

The top of the water surface in a saturated part of an aquifer

• water table

• Water cycle

• aquifer

• Percolation

The process of changing a vapor into a liquid, which occurs when warm vapor mixes with cooler air in the atmosphere

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

The continuous movement of water from the earth into the atmosphere

• Water Table

• Percolation

• Aquifer

• Hydrologic cycle

The process by which water moves through the soil

• Precipitation

• Percolation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

Turns frozen water into water vapors - skipping the melting stage

• Sublimation

• Percolation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

Plants giving off moisture and releasing water into the air

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Runoff

Water running off the land surface

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Transpiration

• Run-off

When clouds get too heavy and water falls back to earth in the form of rain, snow, hail or other forms.

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Percolation

• Transpiration

Changes liquid and frozen water into water vapor gas which floats up into the skies to become clouds

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Runoff