Water Cycle

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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The water cycle has

• a beginning and an end. 

• no beginning an no end. 

• only a beginning. 

• only an end. 

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In which area would the rate of evaporation be the lowest?

• Over the ocean

• Over the mountains

• Over the rainforest

• Over the desert

Turns frozen water into water vapors - skipping the melting stage

• Sublimation

• Percolation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

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Water running off the land surface

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Transpiration

• Run-off

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What is the primary energy source that drives the Earth’s water cycle between the atmosphere, oceans, and land?

• Wind

• Sunlight

• Ocean currents

• Rotation of Earth

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Water gains energy during evaporation. During what process in the water cycle is this energy released?

• Infiltration/percolation through the soil

• Transpiration from plants

• Runoff into the lake and ocean

• Condensation that forms clouds

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The four stages of the water cycle are...

• Precipitation, evaporation, condensation, & transpiration

• Precipitation, heat energy, atoms released into the air, & atmosphere

• Atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, & evaporation

• Evaporation, condensation, atomic energy, thermal energy

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During this stage of the water cycle energy is added

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

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During this stage of the water cycle, energy is lost...

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

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