Water Cycle

Which event best describes an example of evaporation?

• Water flows downhill after a storm.

• Dark clouds form in the sky.

• Solar energy heats water at the ocean's surface.

• Rain water soaks into the ground.

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Which part of the diagram represents Precipitation?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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The entire body of saltwater that covers 75% of the earth.

• Underground rivers

• The Ocean

• Water Vapor

• Condensation

Students created a model of the water cycle by heating a beaker of water on a hot plate and allowing water vapor to condense on the bottom of a metal pan filled with ice cubes. What part of their model is doing the same job as the Sun?

• Beaker of water

• Ice cubes

• Metal pan

• Hot plate

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All of the following are processes that form part of the water cycle EXCEPT –

• the stars appearing to move through the night sky.

• streams and rivers flowing into lakes and seas.

• the Sun’s heat causing evaporation in the ocean.

• rain and snow falling from clouds to the ground.

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This process must occur in order for salt to be separated from water.

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• You can't separate salt from water.

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When rainwater travels down mountains and hills it is called-

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Runoff

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The process of tiny drops of water falling back to the Earth is called—

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Accumulation

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Accumulation

• Water found in lakes, rivers, and streams

• Where rainwater gathers together on earth making puddles, ponds, and lakes

• When water from precipitation runs downhill back into the rivers and eventually the ocean.

• When water from precipitation is soaked into plants and released through leaves back into the atmosphere.

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Water cycle

• Physical change in matter from a gas to a liquid

• The changes to water when it evaporates into the air, condenses into clouds, and then precipitates back down to earth's surface

• The entire body of saltwater that covers 75% of earth

• Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds in the sky

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