Water as a Resource

Water that flows across the land and enters rivers and streams. It eventually flows into lakes and the ocean.

• Snowmelt runoff

• Surface Runoff

• Deposition

• Precipitation

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Which best explains why runoff is important?

• It returns water to other locations on Earth

• It increases the chance of flooding

• It makes evaporation occur faster

• It increases condensation

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What is the hydrosphere?

• Water on the earth's surface

• Oceans of the Earth

• Rivers, oceans and lakes of the Earth

• None of the above

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When water changes form from a LIQUID to a GAS?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

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__________________ is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water. ________________ is crucial to the water cycle because it is responsible for the formation of clouds.

• Transportation

• Percolation

• Condensation

• Plant Uptake

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__________________ is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere. ______________ is essentially evaporation of water from plant leaves.

• Transpiration

• Percolation

• Infiltration

• Plant Uptake

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What is C?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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Water in its gas form is called ____________________,

• water vapor

• precipitation

• ice

• air

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Runoff water that is absorbed by subsurface of soil and rock.

• Groundwater

• Infiltration

• Wetland

• Saturation

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Which statements describe an aquifer? Select the three correct answers.

• can be created only by digging or drilling

• layer of permeable rocks

• can be recharged after being depleted

• underground water storehouse

• layer of impermeable rocks

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