Water Cycle, Porosity and Permeability

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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Condensation occurs when water vapor_____________.

• heats up and becomes liquid water

• cools off and becomes liquid water

• freezes and becomes ice

• rains on the land

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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 is the process during which water cools and turns from a gas to a liquid?

• Condensation
• Runoff
• Precipitation
• Evaporation

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What step of the water cycle does this picture show?

• Condensation

• Runoff

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

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

• volcanoes
• the sun
• lightning
• wind

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Water running off the land surface

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Transpiration

• Run-off

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During which stage do clouds form?

• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation

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Water that flows across the land and enters rivers and streams. It eventually flows into lakes and the ocean.

• infiltration

• Surface Runoff

• Deposition

• Precipitation

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Water soaking into the ground after precipitation occurs.

• condensation

• evaporation

• infilitration

• accumulation

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