WorksheetsThermal Energy/Water Cycle
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
This type of energy has to do with TEMPERATURE.
Sound
Light
Thermal
The transfer of thermal energy through direct contact is called:
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
The transfer of thermal energy through circulation of a liquid or gas is called:
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
This is the transfer of thermal energy through waves.
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
When you HEAT something up you INCREASE the thermal energy causing atoms to move:
Speed up
Slow Down
When you COOL something down, you DECREASE the thermal energy causing atoms to move:
Speed Up
Slow Down
The moisture that falls from clouds to Earth's surface is called...
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
The process of water being released from clouds in the form of rain, hail or snow.
Precipitation
Condensation
Evaporation
The process of water changing from solid to a liquid is called...
Freezing
Melting
Condensation
Evaporation
When Condensation occurs it forms Clouds?
True
False
Sublimation
Solid to gas
Gas to Solid
Solid to Liquid
What happens when sun hits the water?
Condensation
Evaporation
Precipitation
Collection
What is it called when a gas turns into a liquid?
Condensation
Evaportation
Collection
Precipitation
The water cycle is defined as:
The path water takes from the earth to the clouds and back again.
The process when liquid changes into vapor or gas.
The process of gas turning into a liquid.
The process by which plants give off moisture into the atmosphere.
What comes after collection in the water cycle?
Condensation
Precipitation
Evaporation
Collection
What comes after precipitation?
Condensation
Collection
Evaporation
Clouds
What comes after evaporation in the water cycle?
Condensation
Evaporation
Collection
Precipitation
What comes after condensation?
Precipitation
Condensation
Collection
Evaporation
Rain, sleet, snow, or hail are all types of...
Condensation
Evaporation
Precipitation
Collection
Water gathering in rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, and other bodies of water is called...
Condensation
Collection
Evaporation
Precipitation
The process that makes CLOUDS is...
Precipitation
Condensation
Evaporation
Collection
Water in gas form is called...
Liquid
Water
Ice
Water Vapor
What makes water change states in the water cycle?
Clouds
Water
Gravity
Sun's Energy
To make clouds it has to get____.
Warm and less dense
Warm and more dense
Cool and MORE dense
Cool and less dense
Changing water from a gas to a liquid is called...
Condensation
Evaporation
Melting
Freezing
The continuous process of changes to water as it moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back is called...
Water Cycle
Precipitation
Evaporation
Condensation
What is precipitation?
When you use water and it evaporates
When any form of water falls from the clouds
What does collection mean in the water cycle?
This is when water that falls from the clouds is in the form of rain, snow, sleet & hail.
Precipitation that does not get absorbed.
The downward process of moving water from land into rock.
Precipitation that doesn't get absorbed into the soil or evaporate. Collects in rivers, lakes, ponds, or oceans is called...
Ground water
Run off
This is a place where water can be stored
Ice, Snow, Glaciers
Oceans
Clouds
All of these
The state of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
Weather
Climate
The average weather conditions in a specific area over a long period of time.
Weather
Climate
This is the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another.
Waves
Heat
Circulation
This is an NOT an example of CONDUCTION:
A Seabreeze
Chocolate on a rod
Butter melting on pancakes
Touching a stove
Ironing a wrinkled shirt is an example of:
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Adding hot water to your cold bath is an example of:
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Feeling the sun warming the surface of a rock is an example of:
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
The sun evaporates water into the atmosphere.
True
False
When plants release water into their leaves.
Transpiration
Precipitation
Sublimation
Condensation
When water vapor in the atmosphere COOLS, changing into a liquid...
It evaporates and loses energy
It evaporates and gains energy
It condenses and loses energy
It condenses and gains energy
