1.2 Water Cycle Quiz

What is the process called in which water moves from the sea, into the atmosphere, onto and into land, and back into the sea?

• Water cycle

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Transpiration

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Which term describes a system in which material can either be lost or gained?

• Open system

• Closed system

• Evaporation

• Runoff

What is the process by which liquid turns to gas?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Infiltration

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What is the percentage of water vapor in the air called?

• Humidity

• Condensation

• Runoff

• Infiltration

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What is the process by which a gas changes into a liquid due to cooling?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Abstraction

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Which process involves water lost through the leaves of plants?

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Runoff

• Infiltration

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What is the blocking of rainfall by vegetation, preventing it from reaching the ground called?

• Interception

• Runoff

• Through-flow

• Abstraction

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Which term describes rainfall that reaches the ground in a forest by draining down the trunks of plants?

• Stem-fall

• Through-flow

• Runoff

• Condensation

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What is an aquifer?

• An underground layer of permeable rock in which water is stored in the rock pores

• A process of water turning into vapor

• A type of precipitation

• A form of surface runoff

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Which process describes the movement of water into the soil from the surface?

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Transpiration

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