Earth's Water Cycle Vocabulary

Choose the word that has about the same meaning as the underlined word. Water is abundant on our planet.

• salty

• plentiful

• scarce

• frozen

Choose the word that has about the same meaning as the underlined word. Rocks are one substance that makes up Earth's crust.

• gas

• material

• mountain

• cycle

Choose the word that has about the same meaning as the underlined word. It was hard for him to breathe at that altitude.

• height

• heat

• gravity

• speed

Choose the word that has about the same meaning as the underlined word. Water trickles from the faucet into the watering can.

• bursts

• dribbles

• floods

• gushes

Which phrase is a synonym for condenses in the sentence? Water vapor cools, condenses, and collects into droplets to form clouds.

• falls from the sky

• spreads across in oceans

• becomes more compact

• gives water molecules energy to escape

Which word is a synonym for plentiful?

• abundant

• substance

• altitude

• condenses

Which word means position of height?

• abundant

• substance

• altitude

• condenses

Which word means a physical material?

• altitude

• substance

• abundant

• condenses

Which word means makes or becomes close?

• altitude

• trickles

• abundant

• condenses

Which word is a synonym for flows?

• altitude

• condenses

• abundant

• trickles