Water Cycle

What is evaporation?

• A liquid transforming into a gas.

• A solid transforming into a liquid

• A liquid disappearing

• Clouds Turning into a liquid

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What is Transpiration?

• Transpiration is when Steam Turns into a liquid

• Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.

• Transpiration is when solid turns into a gas

• All Choices are wrong.

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What is Condensation?

• Water Evaporates

• Liquid to solid

• Gas to a liquid

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Mariah noticed a large puddle on the sidewalk after a rain storm. A few hours later, the puddle was almost gone. Mariah wonders what happened to the water.

What is the mostly likely explanation?

• The water soaked into the ground.

• An animal drank the water

• The water turned into a solid

• The water evaporated

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On field day, the students in Mr. Harper’s class bring out bottles of cold water to drink. After about 20 minutes, all of the bottles had little droplets of water on the outside. What is this an example of?

• condensation

• leaking

• runoff

• humidity

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When you go outside on a very cold day, you can see your breath in the air. This happens because your breath is warm and the air outside is cold. The moisture in your breath cools and ____________ into tiny water droplets.

• condenses

• evaporates

• freezes

• transpires

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What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• transpiration

The water cycle is driven by ...

• wind and water

• people

• sun and gravity

• the moon

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What part of the water cycle does this picture show?

• condensation
• precipitation
• evaporation

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The sun is important for water cycle because it ____________.

• provides heat energy for evaporation

• provides heat energy for condensation

• dries out the soil for runoff to occur

• provides water vapour

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