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5th Grade Water Cycle Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of Evaporation?

a)

The process that occurs when excess water on plants floats into the air

b)

The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas caused by heat

c)

Heat transfers from a solid to a liquid

d)

The transfer of heat through direct touch

2.

(a)   is the process by which water moves through the Earth and atmosphere

3.

What is Condensation?

a)

Something in the Rock Cycle

b)

The cooling in the atmosphere changing gas to liquid

c)

Quarantine

4.

What is Transpiration?

a)

The passage of water vapor from a plant to the atmosphere

b)

A thing that creates a Tornado

c)

Run Off

d)

Ground Water

5.

What does number 3 show?

a)

Transpiration

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Evaporation

6.

What does number 4 show?

a)

Condensation

b)

Runoff

c)

Evaporation

d)

Precipitation

7.

Which of the following are part of The Water Cycle? Select all that apply.

a)

Crystallization

b)

Evaporation

c)

Consolidation

d)

Precipitation

e)

Transpiration

8.

What is Precipitation?

a)

When the water level in the ocean rises

b)

Evapotranspiration

c)

Water droplets fall from the atmosphere in forms of rain, sleet, snow or hail

d)

Mix of snow and ice

9.

What happens when snow mixes with ice?

a)

Ground Water

b)

Condensation

c)

Sleet

d)

Land Breeze

10.

What's the definition of Runoff?

a)

Water falling from the sky in forms of rain, sleet, snow, or hail

b)

Rain that is not absorbed by soil travels to the ocean

c)

Weather over a certain period of time

d)

Water that goes into the ground

e)

The outer wall of a cell that decides what comes in and what stays out

11.

What is Groundwater?

a)

Water droplets fall from the atmosphere in forms of rain, sleet, snow or hail

b)

Rain that is not absorbed by soil and travels to the ocean

c)

Liquid water becomes water vapor caused by heat

d)

Water that goes into the ground

12.

What is the Water Cycle powered by?

a)

Weather

b)

Sun

c)

Climate

d)

Electricity

e)

Google

13.

Is the Water Cycle important to organisms?

a)

No! There is no point.

b)

Yes! We would die without it!

c)

I don't know...

d)

Maybe

14.

What does Evaporation change water to?

a)

Runoff

b)

Water

c)

Transpiration

d)

Water Vapor

15.

How do plants give off water?

a)

Through Ground Water

b)

Through Runoff

c)

Through Precipitation

d)

Through Transpiration in their leaves