Water & Weather Test

What is responsible for driving the water cycle?

• The Sun
• Heat within Earth
• Ocean Currents
• Wind Currents

What is evaporation?

• The change of solid water (ice) into liquid water
• The change of liquid water into water vapor
• The change of water vapor into liquid water
• The falling of liquid water from the atmosphere

What do you call water that flows on Earth’s surface from high elevation to low elevation?

• Clouds
• Precipitation
• Runoff
• Groundwater

What parts of the water cycle take place in the atmosphere?

• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Infilitration
• Both A and B

Infiltration of water into the ground exemplifies how water cycles through the:

• Geosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere

Plants absorbing water exemplifies how water cycles through the:

• Geosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere

What causes wind?

• Even heating of Earth’s surface
• Uneven heating of Earth’s surface
• Earth’s rotation
• Earth’s revolution around the sun

What biome/environment do you find at the high and dry belts?

• Tropical rainforests
• Temperate forests
• Deserts
• Tundra

What is the cause of the Coriolis effect?

• Wind
• Radiation from the sun
• The Earth's Rotation
• The Earth's revolution around the sun

Where can ocean currents exist?

• On the surface of the ocean
• Deep below the surface of the ocean
• Both A and B
• None of the above