Water Cycle Practice Questions

How would water vapor cooling and forming clouds impact the water cycle?

• by increasing runoff

• by increasing evaporation

• by increasing precipitation

• by increasing transpiration

How does a decrease in temperature turn water vapor back into a liquid?

• through condensation

  
  

• through transpiration

  
  

• through precipitation

  
  

• through evaporation

  
  

After a hot sunny day, a plant withers and dries up. Which explains how this happens?

• The hot sun causes respiration of the plant’s water.

  
  

• The hot sun causes precipitation of the plant’s water.

  
  

• The hot sun causes transpiration of the plant’s water.

  
  

• The hot sun causes condensation of the plant’s water.

  
  

How does water from the ocean return to lakes in the mountains?

• Rivers bring water away from the oceans and to the mountains

• Underground water reservoirs move water from the ocean to the mountains.

• The rotation of the Earth causes evaporation of the ocean’s water, which allows the winds to blow the moisture to the mountains

• The sun’s energy causes evaporation of the ocean’s water, which condenses into clouds, precipitates, and refills bodies of water in the mountains

Jamal filled his swimming pool in the middle of his backyard. He observed the water level for several weeks and found it decreased over time. Which explains why the water level most likely decreased?

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  The volume of water changed because the air temperature cooled

• Plants near the pool used the water via transpiration.

• Precipitation caused runoff in the pool area.

• There was evaporation caused by the sun

How does an increase in water temperature caused by the sun impact the water cycle?

• 
  It causes evaporation.

• It causes precipitation.

  
  

• It causes transpiration.

  
  

• It causes condensation.