The Water Cycle

What is the process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas?

• transpiration

• condensation

• evaporation

• precipitation

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What is the process that occurs when water vapor is cooled and changes from a gas to a liquid?

• evaporation

• condensation

• transpiration

• precipitation

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Which list includes four forms of precipitation?

• rain, sleet, snow, water

• sleet, snow, rain, hail

• lakes, mist, ice, run-off

• condensation, evaporation, transpiration, precipitation

What powers the water cycle?

• Water

• Moon

• Oceans

• Sun

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When plants lose water into the atmosphere as a gas, this is called____.

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

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What process is happening step A?

• transpiration

• evaporation

• condensation

• accumulation

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Water that fills the spaces in soil and rock layers

• runoff
• precipitation
• water
• groundwater

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Forms of water falling from the sky as rain, sleet, hail, and snow are called:

• condensation
• transpiration
• precipitation  
• surface run off

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What is an aquifer?

• An underground area of rock and soil that is soaked with water.

• A freshwater source that is frozen year round.

• A river that runs through a mountain.

• An open area where glaciers melt.

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The __________ is all the water on the surface of the Earth, underground, and in the atmosphere.

• Hydrosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

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