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The Water Cycle (EASY)

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the average time water spends in the ocean?

a)

2,000 years

b)

500 years

c)

20,000 years

d)

3,000 years

2.

During condensation, water changes from a _________ to a _________.

a)

Liquid to a solid

b)

Gas to a liquid

c)

Solid to a gas

d)

Liquid to a gas

3.

During evaporation, water changes from a _______ to a _______.

a)

Gas to a liquid

b)

Liquid to a gas

c)

Solid to a liquid

d)

Liquid to a solid

4.

Do you know how to describe The Water Cycle?

a)

No

b)

Yes

5.

What is Precipitation?

a)

When water droplets become too heavy, they fall down.

b)

The temperature of the Earth

c)

How the Earth looks

d)

A book

6.

What is Transpiration?

a)

When water from leaves evaporate

b)

When water flows down a hill

c)

When water evaporates from the leaves of the plants.

d)

When water soaks into the ground.

7.

How long can a person survive without water?

a)

2 days

b)

2 weeks

c)

3 days

d)

1 month

8.

What type of river valley is the oldest?

a)

V valley

b)

Grand Canyon

c)

P valley

d)

Plateau

9.

Define a river basin:

a)

A piece of land that has water flowing either under or across it.

b)

A small stream

c)

A drink

d)

An area where water gets drained

10.

What is Infiltration?

a)

When water soaks into the ground.

b)

A medical term

c)

When water evaporates from the ground

d)

When water flows across the ground

11.

What percentage of the fresh water is in a form we can use?

a)

25%

b)

10%

c)

1%

d)

5%

12.

What is the average time water spends in the atmosphere?

a)

20 days

b)

8 days

c)

4 weeks

d)

24 hours

13.

What percentage of the worlds water is FRESH water?

a)

50%

b)

2.5%

c)

10%

d)

20%

14.

What type of river valley is the youngest?

a)

P valley

b)

D valley

c)

The Nile

d)

V valley

15.

What are two types of river deposits?

a)

Deltas

b)

Oceans

c)

Natural Levees

d)

The nile river

16.

Define watershed:

a)

A shelter

b)

An area where water goes out to a common outlet

c)

An event

d)

Another name for a house

17.

What are the 3 types of flood control?

a)

Artificial Levees

b)

Flood Control Dams

c)

Humans

d)

Limiting Development

18.

Define an aquifer:

a)

A movie made in 2007

b)

A body of rock that can store water

c)

Another name for a school of fish

d)

A bone in your body

19.

The level below which the ground is saturated with water

a)

Water Table

b)

Wells

c)

Spring Water

d)

Saturation

20.

Access drilled into groundwater

a)

Springs

b)

Wells

c)

Septic tanks

d)

Landfills

21.

Households use %______ for the _____________.

a)

%11.1 Sink

b)

%26.7 Toilet

c)

% 23.4 Washer and Dryer

d)

%34.6 Watering plants

22.

Water that is underneath the ground

a)

Spring water

b)

Groundwater

c)

Ice

d)

Well water

23.

Water tables that break the grounds surface

a)

Wells

b)

Springs

c)

Sewers

d)

Waterfalls

24.

All spaces of soil are filled up by water

a)

Zone of Saturation

b)

Downpour of rain

c)

Lake

d)

Ocean

25.

The 2nd most groundwater use in the US is used for ____________ ___________.

a)

Public Supply

b)

Washing Clothes

c)

Washing Dishes

d)

Farming

26.

How do people access groundwater?

a)

They drill into wells

b)

It magically appears

c)

They don't have to

d)

They don't need water

27.

The most groundwater in the US is used for ____________.

a)

Drinking

b)

Public Supply

c)

Irrigation

d)

Cooking

28.

Name 3 ways you could save water in your day to day life.

a)

Turn off the faucet

b)

Keep the faucet on

c)

Turn off the water when you are not using it

d)

Take shorter showers

e)

Take longer showers

29.

Household use 2nd highest % = _______ for _________________.

a)

%22.8 farming

b)

%11.2 Cooking

c)

%4.9 Washing dishes

d)

%21.7 clothes washer

30.

What are the most common causes of groundwater contamination?

a)

Septic Tanks

b)

Farm Wastes

c)

Broken Sewers

d)

Landfills