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Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is evaporation?
The process of snow and ice changing into water vapor without melting first.
Water released from clouds in the form of rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
The process of which water changes from liquid to gas.
The downward process of moving water from land into soil or rocks.
What is Precipitation?
The process of snow and ice changing into water vapor without melting first.
The process of which water changes from liquid to gas.
Water vapor changes to a liquid making clouds and fog.
Water released from clouds falling to land in the form of rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
What is sublimation?
The process of snow and ice changing into water has without melting into liquid first.
The downwards process of moving water from land from the surface into soil/porous rocks.
The process of which water water changes from the liquid state to water vapor.
Water being released from clouds in the form of rain, sleet, or snow.
What is runoff?
Water released from clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
The downwards process of moving water from the surface into soil or porous rocks.
Water collecting in the sky making clouds and fog.
Precipitation that does not get absorbed into the ground or evaporate. Ice caps and glaciers help with this.
What is transpiration?
Water vapor turning into its liquid state from its gas state, making snow, hail, sleet, or rain.
Water lost to the atmosphere from the ground, surface, and transpiration of ground water by plants through their leaves.
Water vapor changed into liquid losing energy and forming clouds and fog.
Process of water turning into water vapor from plants through their leaves.
True or false, Clouds have water droplets and ice crystals floating in them.
True
False
What effect does the sun have on surface water?
It causes it to boil
It causes it to rain
It causes it to sink
It causes it to evaporate
Which is the opposite of condensation?
runoff
evaporation
precipitation
transpiration
Oceans, the atmosphere, and groundwater are all ________ in the water cycle.
Nodes
Sinks
Reservoirs
Stations
Which reservoir in the water cycle contains the most water?
The ice caps
The oceans
Groundwater
Surface water
