Water Cycle

What is another name for the water cycle?

• Aqua Cycle

• Hydrologic Cycle

• Hydrolytic Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

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Where is 96.5% of the Earth's water the primary pathway into the water cycle?

• Atmosphere

• Rivers, Lakes, Ponds

• Ocean

• Groundwater

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The process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas.

• evaporation

• condensation

• sublimation

• precipitation

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The sun provides what for the evaporation process

• light

• energy source

• fire

• water

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The ________ it is the faster water changes into water vapor.

• colder

• drier

• hotter

• slower

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The process of a solid changing into water vapor without melting

• decomposition

• sublimation

• evaporation

• deposition

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Plants return groundwater to the atmosphere through which process?

• evaporation

• sublimation

• transpiration

• condensation

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The process in which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water is called:

• evaporation

• transpiration

• sublimation

• condensation

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When water deos not get absorbed into soil or evaporate into the atmosphere it becomes __________.

• precipitation

• sublimation

• runoff

• transpiration

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________ moves groundwater into places where it collects, like ponds and rivers.

• sunlight

• evaporation

• gravity

• sewers

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