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What is evaporation?

• 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.

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The tropical rainforest has experienced 50 to 260 inches of rainfall annually for the last  few decades.

• Weather
• Climate

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The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition
• Crop Rotation

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Which water cycle processes are directly related to cloud formation?

• melting and freezing

• precipitation and evaporation

• evaporation and condensation

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How does the water cycle show how the hydrosphere and the atmosphere interact?

• Plants soak up water from the ground. 
• Air evaporates to form water clouds.
• Water filters through the soil into the ground water.
• Heat and wind causes water in the pond to evaporate into thin air.

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Where does most freshwater exist? 

• ice caps, lakes, and streams
• glaciers, rivers, and oceans
• aquifers, ice caps, and glaciers

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What is the term given to the study of Earth's oceans and the movement of water?

• Environmental Science

• Astronomy

• Geology

• Oceanography

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Which best explains why runoff is important?

• It returns water to other locations on Earth
• It increases the chance of flooding
• It makes evaporation occur faster
• It increases condensation

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In the morning, you observe that water droplets have formed on grass. Which process occurred when the water droplets formed on the grass?

• condensation

• deposition

• evaporation

• sublimation

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Water on Earth is found naturally as a solid, a liquid, and a gas. Where is MOST of the solid water of Earth?

• deep in Earth’s mantle

• in Earth’s polar regions

• in the outer atmosphere

• at the bottom of the ocean

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