water cycle

What is precipitation?

• Sweat from our bodies on hot days

• Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet

• Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens

• Any form of water that falls from the sky

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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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What is water that flows in rivers and streams into the oceans and lakes?

• evaporating
• condensing
• precipitating
• runoff

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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 turns into a gas

• condensation 
• evaporation
• precipitation

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The process when plants release water vapor from their leaves is called _____________.

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

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What are formed when water vapor condenses and come together?

• Clouds

• Mountains

• Transpiration

• Valleys

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What step of the water cycle does this picture show?

• Condensation

• Runoff

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

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When clouds fill with water and can't hold anymore, the water falls from the clouds as -

• precipitation

• clouds

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The water cycle has

• a beginning and an end. 
• no beginning an no end. 
• only a beginning. 
• only an end. 

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