SCI CHP 13: Part 1 - Water Cycle Definition

The water cycle is also known as?

• climate cycle
• precipitation cycle
• atmospheric cycle
• hydrological cycle

When liquid surface water is heated by the sun and evaporates into atmospheric water vapor, it is called what?

• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Transpiration
• Evaporation

What do we call when water vapor molecules come together and cool, forming liquid water?

• Sublimation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Condensation

When water returns from the atmosphere to the surface as rain, sleet, snow, hail, etc. it is called?

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Transpiration

When precipitation, such as snow or frozen water, instantaneously changes from ice to gaseous water vapor, it is called what?

• sublimation
• condensation
• precipitation
• evaporation

When liquid water within plants is heated by the sun and evaporates through openings in their leaves, it is called what?

• filtration
• condensation
• photosynthesis
• transpiration

When gravity pulls liquid water in a flow of precipitation over the ground it is called?

• groundwater flow
• evaporation
• runoff

• condensation

When liquid water percolates down through the soil into the ground it is called?

• evaporation
• infiltration
• condensation
• precipitation