Review of Water Cycling

When water turns from solid to liquid, what process is occurring?

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When water turns from liquid to solid, what process is occurring?

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When warm air cools into tiny liquid droplets, collecting around tiny dust particles and forming clouds, what is occurring?

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

• freezing

• melting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When the sun heats up liquid water and turns it into gaseous water vapor, what is occurring?

• freezing

• melting

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When plants release water into the air from small openings in their leaves, what is occurring?

• precipitation

• transpiration

• melting

• condensation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When water droplets in clouds become too heavy and rain, snow, sleet, or hail start to fall to the ground, what is occurring?

• condensation

• freezing

• precipitation

• evaporation

• melting

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water hits hard or saturated surfaces on Earth and flows into nearby lakes, rivers, or oceans, what is occurring?

• runoff

• evaporation

• precipitation

• melting

• condensation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water is pulled by gravity down in the soil, eventually landing in underground aquifers, what is occurring?

• percolation

• melting

• precipitation

• evaporation

• condensation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water travels through rivers and streams, eventually ending up in lakes and oceans, what is occurring?

• runoff

• melting

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water turns from solid to gas, what process is occurring?

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4