Water in Motion Quiz

When water droplets in a cloud combine, become too heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail, we are experiencing __________.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

Is there more water on Earth in groundwater systems or river systems?

• sometimes groundwater, other times river systems

• both are the same

• river systems

• groundwater systems

Which contains the greatest amount of Earth's freshwater, available for human use?

• groundwater

• oceans and seas

• lakes and rivers

• glaciers and polar ice caps

Only 3% of the water on Earth is freshwater. About 60% of that water is not available for human use. Why is this?

Runoff is water that ___________.

• we drink.

• creates groundwater

• does not soak into the ground or evaporate.

• soaks into the ground.

Most water vapor in the atmosphere comes from ___________.

• evaporation from oceans.

• evaporation from soil.

• transpiration from plants.

• the burning of fossil fuels.

What of the following changes from gas to liquid?

• freezing

• melting

• condensation

• evaporation

What force drives the water cycle?

• rain

• the sun

• pressure

• a honda

All water on Earth is about ____%

• 70

• 30

• 97

• 3

Freshwater on Earth is about ____%

• 70

• 30

• 97

• 3