Water Cycle Lesson

Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water. Which process is represented by letter F?

• Capillarity

• Infiltration

• Condensation

• Vaporization

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What does letter X represent?

• the water table

• a flood plain

• sea level

• impermeable rock

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Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water. If the surface soil is saturated and precipitation increases, there will be

• a decrease in the amount of groundwater

• a decrease in the surface elevation of the lake

• an increase in the rate of capillarity

• an increase in the amount of runoff

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Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water. The processes of transpiration and evaporation are represented by letters

• A & B

• B & E

• C & A

• D & E

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Which of the following processes most directly affects the amount of water entering earth's atmosphere?

• precipitation and runoff

• condensation and precipitation

• transpiration and evaporation

• infiltration and recharge

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The rate of evaporation of water can be increased by

• Increasing the amount of moisture in the air

• decreasing the temperature of the water

• increasing the temperature of the air

• decreasing the circulation of the air

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Surface runoff will generally be greatest when the

• rainfall is light and the ground is permeable

• infiltration rate is greater than the rainfall rate

• slope of the land is too great to permit infiltration

• ground is permeable and unsaturated

________ the global movement of water powered by energy from the sun and Earth's gravity.

• transpiration

• water cycle

• infiltration

• condensation

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________ the process by which water falls to the ground from clouds in the atmosphere in the form of rain, sleet, snow or hail.

• Evaporation

• Groundwater

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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________ the process by which surface water flows downhill into rivers, lakes, and the ocean.

• Evaporation

• Groundwater

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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