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Precipitation happens when clouds of water droplets are too ______________.

• cold
• light
• heavy
• hot

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La fuente de energia que hace que el agua de la tierra se evapore es...

• La luna
• El sol
• El calor de la atmosfera
• Una lampara

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An area of land over which water flows to a particular body of water

• Groundwater

• Contamination

• Point source contamination

• Watershed

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Water vapor is an example of what sphere?

• Atmosphere

• Cryosphere

• Biosphere

• Geosphere

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What is the hydrosphere?

• all the air and gases on the planet

• made up of living things

• the non-living soil, rocks, and minerals of the Earth

• the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the Earth

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Define precipitation

• water that moves through soil or rock underground

• the movement of water into the ground

• any form of water that falls from clouds to Earth’s surface

• the process by which water vapor in the air cools and becomes liquid water

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Water on earth flows from higher places to lower places.

• True

• False

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The figure above shows how water is distributed on Earth. Which of the following contains the largest percentage of Earth’s fresh water?

• lakes

• groundwater

• glaciers and ice caps

• ground ice and permafrost

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Which best describes the role of the water cycle?

• circulates existing water on Earth

• reduces pollution in most of the water

• increases usable supply of Earth’s water

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Water is a ________

• Natural substance

• Man made substance

• Both of these

• None of these

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