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8th Grade Science Quiz

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the " Water Cycle "?

a)

A process

b)

A process of water

c)

A continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface and into the atmoshpere and back

d)

WATER WATER WATER

2.

How does Water move to the atmosphere?

a)

Water cycle

b)

How water moves

c)

Dead Bodies

d)

In the water cycle, water moves from bodies of water, lan, and living things on Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back to Earth's surface

3.

What is Precipitation?

a)

How bodies form

b)

How mouths chew

c)

Heavy drops that fall back down to Earth, such as, rain, snow, fleet, or hail.

d)

Maryam's annoying as heck

4.

How much of Earth's water is salty, and how much is fresh?

a)

1% salty

b)

97% is salty and 3% fresh

c)

97% is fresh and some salty

d)

Sometimes, you just have to try and find out, go drink some and see.

5.

Where is fresh water usually found?

a)

Arghhh Ye matty

b)

ORE WA MONKEY D LUFFY

c)

In rivers and lakes

d)

Allahuakbar

6.

What is groundwater?

a)

Water that fills cracks or spaces in underground soil.

b)

Water that has minerals

c)

Water that trickles into cracks or spaces in underground soil and rock layers.

d)

IDK

7.

what in the world are tributaries?

a)

Small rivers that lead into a main river

b)

Streams and small rivers that lead into a main river.

c)

Streams that lead into a main river

d)

Tributes

8.

How do tributaries get into a main river?

a)

Tributaries end up there because of gravity

b)

Tributaries just get there

c)

Tributaries get pulled up by the force of gravity.

d)

Tributaires?

9.

What makes up a river system.

a)

Streams and rivers

b)

Rivers and lakes.

c)

Oceans and frogs lmake a river system

d)

A river and its tributaries.

10.

What the heck is a watershed?

a)

The land area that supplies water to a river system.

b)

That supplies water to a river system.

c)

To a river system is a watershed.

d)

Is a watershed.

11.

What is another name for a watershed?

a)

Drainaged Basen

b)

Drainage basyin

c)

Drainage Basin

d)

Drianage Basin

12.

What are the biggest watersheds?

a)

Missouri

b)

Mississippi

c)

Both

d)

None

13.

Divide? What is a Divider?

a)

Something that divides water.

b)

Something that keeps a watershed separate, one watershed separated from another by a ridge of land.

c)

Nothing

d)

Idk

14.

What is the Continental divider called?

a)

The longest divide in North America, it follows the lone of the Rocky Mountains

b)

North Americas longest divider that leads across the Rocky Mountains

c)

Rocky stuff

d)

Water stuff

15.

What's the difference between ponds and lakes?

a)

Ponds are smaller

b)

Lakes are deeper

c)

Ponds are smaller and shallower while lakes are deep and cold.

d)

whatever

16.

How do ponds form?

a)

Ponds are creative.

b)

Ponds form in hollow and low-lying areas

c)

Life is all about ponds where people can drink it

d)

I hate ponds

17.

What is a habitat?

a)

An organism's house, where it stays for the rest of its life.

b)

And organism's place of food, water and other things it needs to survive.

c)

An organism's place, or home where it lives and is able to obtain all things it needs to survive.

d)

WOW

18.

What is a lakes characteristics?

a)

Most lakes are generally not as big as like e Michigan but they can be huge, deep, and cold.

b)

Lakes are humungous

c)

LAKES ARE GOOD

d)

Lakes are generally deeper and bigger than ponds, in addition sunlight does not reach the bottom in a deep lake as it does in ponds.

19.

How do lakes form?

a)

Lakes are formed by rainfall or damages to earths crust.

b)

IDK

c)

Some lakes are made like ponds and some are causes of the powerful shape on Earth's surface

d)

WEIRDO

20.

What is a Reservoir?

a)

A lake that stores water for human use.

b)

A lake that stores water for any animal, including us.

c)

A lake that stores water for plants.

d)

A lake that cause's photosynthesis.

21.

What is a wetland?

a)

A land that's wet

b)

A bog

c)

A swamp.

d)

A wetland is a land area that is covered in water during part of the line/