Surface Water and MOvement

The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapo-transpiration is called the...

• carbon cycle
• nitrogen cycle
• water cycle
• rock cycle

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What is occurring at A in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation

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What process is happening at C in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• condensation
• transpiration

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How does water leave the atmosphere? Give the most complete answer.

• Rain

• Sleet

• Precipitation

• Hail

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A rock

• Suspended load

• Dissolved load

• Bed load

• Stream load

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How water leaves plants is what?

• Persperation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Evapotranspiration

Movement of water through the soils of Earth is what?

• Diffusion

• Infiltration

• Exfoliation

• Precipitation

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Sediments that are transported by streams, but too large to be held up in suspension.

• bed load

• discharge

• gravel

• rock

A stream’s __________ is the material the stream carries.

• load

• bed

• carrying

• discharge

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Elevated land areas called __________ separate one watershed from another.

• mountains

• divides

• water splits

• water falls