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Water Cycle Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the energy source for the water cycle?

a)

sun

b)

wind

c)

rain

d)

oceans

2.

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?

a)

evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

d)

runoff

3.
What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?
a)
condensation
b)
evaporation
c)
sublimation
d)
transpiration
4.
Which process takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere?
a)
respiration
b)
combustion
c)
decomposition
d)
photosynthesis
5.

Condensed water vapor that falls back to Earth (ex. snow, rain, sleet, hail)

a)

Precipitation

b)

Condensation

c)

Sublimation

d)

Run-off

6.

The process of gas changing into a liquid due to a decrease in temperature (formation of clouds)

a)

Precipitation

b)

Condensation

c)

Evaporation

d)

Run-off

7.

Precipitation that reaches Earth's surface and flows over land (water running off the road into the sewer)

a)

Infiltration

b)

Precipitation

c)

Run-off

d)

Evaporation

8.

The process of a liquid changing into a gas due to increase in temperature (puddles on the sidewalk dissapear)

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Infiltration

9.

circle PRECIPITATION

10.

Label the model of the carbon cycle

11.

Label the model of the water (hydrologic) cycle

12.

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.

Choose from the below words
evaporate
condenses
Precipitation
13.
How much of the earth's water is freshwater?
a)
50 %
b)
3 %
c)
97 %
d)
93 %
14.
What is the water cycle?
a)
the 3 forms of water
b)
the movement of water on, above, or below the surface of the Earth
c)
when water melts
d)
when clouds form
15.

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_________.

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