Sci 7 Unit A Water and Carbon Cycles

What is precipitation?

• Sweat from our bodies on hot days

• Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet

• Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens

• Any form of water that falls from the sky

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What are formed when water vapor condenses?

• Clouds

• Mountains

• Transpiration

• Valleys

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The act of turning from a gas into a liquid. ________________________

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Precipitation

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The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat. ____________________

• Evaporation

• Convection

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

The act of turning from a liquid into a gas. ___________________

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

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The major source of energy and the driving energy source of the water cycle. __________________

• moon

• ocean

• sun

• atmosphere

The draining away of water from the surface of an area of land.

• weathering

• transpiration

• run-off

• precipitation

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The process where plants absorb water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves. __________________________

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

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The fall of water, ice, or snow deposited on the surface of the Earth from the atmosphere. __________

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

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What part of the water cycle does this picture show?

• condensation
• precipitation
• evaporation

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