Water Cycle

A student follows these steps to make a model of the water cycle.

What does step 4 allow the student to demonstrate?

• How the sun helps dissolve salt in ocean water

• How the sun changes ice on mountains into streams

• How the sun moves water from the ocean into clouds

• How the sun moves water from Earth’s surface into reservoirs

When water vapor s cooled and forms droplets-

• Condensation
• Evaportation
• Transpiration
• Run-off

When water is heated in the ocean by the sun and turns into water vapor

• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration
• runoff

What is precipitation?

• The part of the water cycle when the sun heats up water, turning it from a liquid into water vapor or steam. It rises from the ground into the air.
• The part of the water cycle when the water vapor in the air gets cold. The water turns back into a liquid and forms clouds.
• The part of the water cycle when clouds get heavy and can no longer hold the liquid water. This causes the water to fall from the sky to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

Which of these is not an example of precipitation?

• rain
• clouds
• sleet
• snow

What is the role of the sun in the water cycle?

• provide heat energy for evaporation

• provide heat energy for condensation

• dry out the soil for runoff to occur

• provide thermal energy for accumulation

The diagram above shows four stages of the water cycle.Which change is occurring at stage 1 in the diagram?

• 
  Water is changing from a gas to a solid.
• Water is changing from a liquid to a gas.
• Water is changing from a liquid to a solid.
• Water is changing from a solid to a liquid.

What follows evaporation during the water cycle? 

• Water evaporates into water vapor
• Water vapor condenses and forms a  cloud
• Water precipitates to the ground
• Water runs down into the hydrosphere

Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all examples of  ________________. 

• evaporation
• condensation
• accumulation
• precipitation

When water flows back into the ocean it is called 

• condensation
• runoff
• transpiration
• precipitation