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What do you call the land that water flows across, under, and through on its way to a body of water?

• Tributary
• River system
• Headwaters
• Watershed

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¿Como llamaríamos al agua procedente de la precipitación y el deshielo que circula por la superficie terrestre?

• Agua salada

• Agua potable

• Escorrentía superficial

• Infiltración

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All bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above ground

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Runoff

• Swimming pool

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Suppose you had a special machine to remove water that is naturally in the air. What type of water would the machine collect?

• glacial water

• salt water

• groundwater

• freshwater

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Converting solar energy into electricity may help slow down the depletion of which resource?

• copper

• sunlight

• water

• coal

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What is another name or synonym for the water cycle?

• Geologic cycle

• Hydrologic cycle

• Geosphere

• Carbon cycle

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A hydrologist who studies the movement of water through a watershed is a

• Earth and Space scientist.

• Life scientist.

• Physical scientist.

• Ocean scientist.

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_____________ are forms of precipitation.

• Rocks and earth

• Air particles and aerosols

• Rain and snow

• Space satellites and weather balloons

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From your water lab activity, which examples below modeled the least amount of water in a reservoir on Earth?

• rivers and oceans

• rivers and atmosphere

• oceans and glaciers

• atmosphere and oceans.

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Water moves from the Earth to the Atmosphere by a process called the

• Rock Cycle

• Rain

• Water Cycle

• Evaporation

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