Water Cycle

Evaporation is a state change from?

• Ice to liquid.

• Liquid to gas.

• Gas to solid.

• Crystals to water.

The __________ is all the water on the surface of the Earth, underground, and in the atmosphere.

• Hydrosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

What part of the water cycle takes place when any form of water falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Water accumulation

• Precipitation

As a part of the water cycle, water from Earth's surface enters the clouds and finally falls back to the ground in the form of rain. What is the correct sequence of processes water undergoes?

• Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation

• Precipitation, Condensation, Evaporation

• Condensation, Evaporation, Precipitation

• Evaporation, Precipitation, Condensation

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

Condensation occurs when water vapor_____________.

• heats up and becomes liquid water

• cools and becomes liquid water

• freezes and becomes ice

• rains on the land

What step of the water cycle occurs when clouds become too heavy? 

• Condensation
• Runoff
• Precipitation
• Evaporation

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

• evaporation

• condensation

• sublimation

• precipitation

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

• colder

• drier

• hotter

• slower

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

• evaporation

• transpiration

• sublimation

• condensation