Water Cycle, Convection Currents, and Atmosphere questions

What is the first step (root) of the water cycle?

• Sun, making the water evaporate

• sea breeze

• water vapor condensing into clouds

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

True or False: All the water on Earth has been here since the planet first formed.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water vapor cools down it changes into water droplets and forms a --

• cloud

• puddle

• reservoir

• hurricane

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

what is the difference between evaporation and transpiration

• one comes from water areas and one comes from a plant

• one turns into water vapor and one doesn't

• one turns into a plant and one turns into the ground

• one comes from sun and one from the sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

How much of Earth's water is stored in oceans?

• about 70%

• about 75%

• about 96%

• about 80%

What happens to water during evaporation?

• from gas to liquid

• from liquid to gas

• stays solid

• stays a liquid

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What happens during condensation

• water stays a liquid

• water goes from a liquid to gas

• water comes from a gas to a liquid

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When heat energy transfers between two parts of a fluid at different temperatures, what are these things called?

• water ways

• convection currents

• sea breeze

• land breeze

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

True or false: Cool fluids rises in convection currents because it has higher density.

• True

• False

True or false: Warm fluids rise because it has less density.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4