Introduction to Water and Surface Water

What is precipitation?

• Sweat from our bodies on hot days

• Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet

• Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens

• Any form of water that falls from the sky

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What is another name or synonym for the water cycle?

• Geologic cycle

• Hydrologic cycle

• Geosphere

• Carbon cycle

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What is the energy source that drives the water cycle?

• The moon T

• The heat from our home in the winter all around the world

• The sun

• he heat generated solely from the core of the earth

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What are formed when water vapor condenses?

• Clouds

• Mountains

• Transpiration

• Valleys

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Approximately what percent of Earth’s surface is covered with water?

• 3

• 50

• 71

• 97

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Of all of Earth’s water, approximately what percent is available for human use?

• 1

• 3

• 30

• 97

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This is the movement of water from our earth's surface/ground to the atmosphere, and back to the surface.

• water cycle

• precipitation

• evaporation

• glaciers

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Which statement is NOT correct about the water cycle?

• Solar radiation is needed for evaporation and transpiration to take place.

• Water going from a vapor (gas) to liquid is called condensation.

• Gravity is the force for groundwater flow, surface water flow, infiltration, and precipitation.

• Water going from solid to gas is called transpiration.

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What is the correct order of events in the water cycle?

• condensation -> evaporation -> precipitation

• precipitation -> condensation -> evaporation

• evaporation -> precipitation -> condensation

• evaporation -> condensation -> precipitation

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The total amount of water on Earth _________________________

• a. Is increasing because of precipitation.

• b. Changes constantly due to the weather.

• c. Is decreasing because water is consumed and evaporated.

• d. Is fairly constant because what is evaporated comes back as precipitation.

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