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WorksheetsWater Cycle Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 18mins
What is the energy source for the water cycle?
sun
wind
rain
oceans
Water flows from the river near Miranda's home into the Gulf of Mexico. She knows that runoff is one way that water returns to the ocean. What is the main way water leaves the ocean?
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
runoff
Condensed water vapor that falls back to Earth (ex. snow, rain, sleet, hail)
Precipitation
Condensation
Sublimation
Run-off
The process of gas changing into a liquid due to a decrease in temperature (formation of clouds)
Precipitation
Condensation
Evaporation
Run-off
Precipitation that reaches Earth's surface and flows over land (water running off the road into the sewer)
Infiltration
Precipitation
Run-off
Evaporation
The process of a liquid changing into a gas due to increase in temperature (puddles on the sidewalk dissapear)
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Infiltration
circle PRECIPITATION
Label the model of the carbon cycle
Label the model of the water (hydrologic) cycle
The photograph shows a beach on a partly sunny day.
Energy from the sun causes water to (a) from the ocean. Water vapor or water in its gaseous state rises over the ocean and (b) to form clouds. (c) is the process that occurs when any and all forms of water particles fall from the atmosphere back to Earth's surface.
Write the journey of a water droplet
Sentence Stems
Danny/Dany Droplet starts as a _____ before ______.
He/She/They then become a _______ because of _______.
He/She/They fall to the Earth during _________.
He/She/They will then_________.
