Water Cycle Quiz

What is another name or synonym for the water cycle?

• ocean
• rain cycle

• hydrologic cycle

• hydrogen cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

_____ is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas.

• Precipitation
• Evaporation
• Transpiration
• Perspiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A _______ is necessary for evaporation to occur.

• heat source

• battery

• sublimation

• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The ______ it is, the faster water changes into water vapor.

• colder

• hotter

• softer

• louder

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

_____ is the process of a solid changing into water vapor without melting.

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Sublimation

• Melting

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Plants return groundwater to the atmosphere through the process of _____.

• perspiration
• transpiration
• sublimation
• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The process in which water vapor loses thermal energy and becomes liquid water is called _____.

• condensation
• cloud
• sublimation
• sleet

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Water released from clouds can fall to the earth in these forms:

• rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, moth balls
• snow, rain, cats, freezing rain
• sleet, rain, snow, freezing rain
• freezing rain, sleet, dogs, ice cubes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Where is water stored in the water cycle? (Choose the best response.)

• volcanoes, ice, socks, atmosphere, Venus

• groundwater, oceans, volcanoes, ice

• rock cycle, oceans, atmosphere, volcanoes

• atmosphere, ocean, groundwater, ice

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water (precipitation) does not get absorbed into the soil or evaporate into the atmosphere, it becomes _____.

• runoff

• gravity

• clouds

• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4