Water Cycle Quiz

What is the continual movement of water among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land surface called?

• Evaporation

• Water cycle

• Condensation

• Circulation

What is the process of turning from liquid into water vapor (gas)?

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Distribution

What is the change from a water vapor (gas) to a liquid called?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Salinity

What do you call any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Circulation

What is an underground water supply called?

• Reservoir

• Glacier

• Aquifer

• Tides

What is the term for the amount of salt in water?

• Salinity

• Tides

• Circulation

• Primary

Forms of precipitation are-

• only sleet and snow
• rain, sleet, hail, and snow
• only dew and rain 
• only snow and rain

Glacier is any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land

• True

• False

Tides are the rising and falling of ocean waters as a result of the pull of gravity

• True

• False

Primary is the least important

• True

• False

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