Vocabulary: Science Cycles

What is the term for the continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid into gas into liquid?

• water cycle

• photosynthesis

• carbon cycle

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the term for water in the form of a gas that is present during evaporation?

• water vapor

• ice

• liquid water

• dew

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NGSS.5-PS1-2

What is the term for the continuous exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen among living things?

• oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• water cycle

• photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the term for the continuous trapping of nitrogen gas into compounds in the soil and its return to the air?

• nitrogen cycle

• carbon cycle

• water cycle

• oxygen cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When water turns from a liquid to a gas

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When water vapor (gas state) turns back into a liquid it is called...

• evaporation

• condensation

• percipitation

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water falls from the atmosphere it is called...

• transpiration

• precipitation

• evaporation

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is it called when plants release water vapor into the atmosphere...

• transportation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water flows over the earth...it is called?

• weathering

• erosion

• watershed

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Where can you find water?

• atmosphere

• bodies of water

• rocks

• underground

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4