Water Cycle Quiz

What is the energy source for the water cycle?

• sun

• wind

• rain

• oceans

Water flows from the river near Miranda's home into the Gulf of Mexico. She knows that runoff is one way that water returns to the ocean. What is the main way water leaves the ocean?

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• runoff

What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• transpiration

Which process takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere?

• respiration
• combustion
• decomposition
• photosynthesis

Condensed water vapor that falls back to Earth (ex. snow, rain, sleet, hail)

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Sublimation

• Run-off

The process of gas changing into a liquid due to a decrease in temperature (formation of clouds)

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Run-off

Precipitation that reaches Earth's surface and flows over land (water running off the road into the sewer)

• Infiltration

• Precipitation

• Run-off

• Evaporation

The process of a liquid changing into a gas due to increase in temperature (puddles on the sidewalk dissapear)

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Infiltration

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Label the model of the carbon cycle

b

c

d

e

a

Carbon dioxide (CO2)

Respiration

Photosynthesis

Decomposition

Combustion