Interactions of Earth's Systems

What part does the sun have in the water cycle?

• It makes the body of water boil.

• It helps evaporate the water.

• It does nothing.

• It gives off water vapor.

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What is evaporation?

• When a gas changes into a liquid.

• When water falls from clouds.

• When water vapor forms a cloud.

• When a liquid changes into a gas.

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The process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves.

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

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Where does weather occur?

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

• Exosphere

• Ionosphere

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What is climate?

• The weather over a day.

• The temperature over an hour.

• The average weather over a long span of time.

• None of the above.

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Igneous rocks...

• Form when molten material, called magma, cools and hardens.

• Are compressed and then cemented together.

• Form when extreme temperatures and pressure within Earth change existing rocks into new rocks.

Weather is influenced by conditions in the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

• TRUE!

• FALSE!

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Condensation is the process by which a gas

changes to a liquid.

• TRUE!

• FALSE!

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What is NOT a form of precipitation?

• Sleet

• Snow

• Rock

• Rain

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What are Metamorphic rocks?

• Form when extreme temperatures and pressure within Earth change existing rocks into new rocks.

• Form when molten material, called magma, cools and hardens.

• None of the above.

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