The Water Cycle The Cycle Repeats

When water travels through soil and rock

• condensation

• infiltration

• evaporation

• transpiration

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Water cycle

• the process in which a liquid turns to a gas

• the giving off of water vapor by plants

• to unload or empty the contents of something

• the repeated changes that water goes through on the earth; includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and collection

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Evaporation

• the process in which a liquid turns to a gas

• the giving off of water vapor by plants

• to unload or empty the contents of something

• the repeated changes that water goes through on the earth; includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and collection

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Transpiration

• the process in which a liquid turns to a gas

• the giving off of water vapor by plants

• to unload or empty the contents of something

• the repeated changes that water goes through on the earth; includes precipitation, evaporation, condensation and collection

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By which process does water move from Earth's surface into aquifers?

• infiltration

• evaporation

• condensation

• transpiration

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Infiltration: when a substance travels though another material, like when water travels down through soil and rock.

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The process by which water vapor turns from a gas to a liquid

• evaporation

• condensation

• collection

• precipitation

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This is when water that falls from the clouds as rain, snow, hail or sleet, collects in the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. Most will infiltrate (soak into) the ground and will collect as underground water.

• evaporation

• transpiration

• collection

• groundwater discharge

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Which drives the process of infiltration?

• the Coriolis effect

• groundwater discharge

• gravity

• evaporation

Answer explanation

Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. Infiltration is governed mainly by gravity.

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What is the primary energy source driving evaporation?

• Lightning

• solar radiation

• hydrothermal vents

• convection in Earth's mantle

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Precipitation (choose all that apply)

• hail

• snow

• rain water

• transpiration

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