Water Cycle

Where is most water found on the Earth? 

• In Glaciers
• In Lakes
• In Rivers
• In the Ocean

What source of energy evaporates the most water from Earth's surface? 

• Volcanoes
• Sun
• Lightening
• Wind

What is water doing when it is changed to water vapor? 

• Evaporating
• Condensing
• Precipitating

What is water doing when it changes to water? 

• Evaporating
• Condensing
• Precipitating

What controls whether water is a gas, liquid, or solid ice? 

• the shape or size of the cup
• where it has been stored
• if it is being used for irrigation
• what its temperature is 

Many Utah towns use water from wells for drinking.  How does water get into wells? 

• it has to be poured into them from water tanks
• rain sinks down through the soil into them 
• it is pumped by large engines into the well
• it evaporates from inside the Earth

On which kind of day would you expect the most evaporation from the surface of a pond? 

• cold, rainy
• cold, sunny
• warm, rainy
• warm, sunny

Which type of rainfall would be most helpful to farmers? 

• rainfall that evaporates quickly
• rainfall that runs off the land quickly
• rainfall that soaks into the soil slowly 
• very little rainfall

River, streams and oceans are all points of _____________ in the water cycle.

• collection 
• precipitation
• condensation
• evaporation

Predict what might happen to a river when heavy rains soak the soil near it.  The river will 

• sink
• rise
• freeze
• not change