Water Cycle, Clouds, Air Masses and Air Fronts Quiz

What is evaporation?

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• When the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam

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What is condensation?

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

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What is precipitation?

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• When water in the form of ice, rain, sleet, hail, or snow, falls to Earth

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

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What is runoff?

• When precipitation hits the ground, it is either absorbed, or it flows over the surface of the earth

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

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What is collection?

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

• Where water collects or is stored on the earth's surface

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

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What is transpiration?

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

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What is absorption?

• Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

What is infiltration?

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

What is groundwater?

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• Water is absorbed into the ground and stored for later use

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What are clouds?

• Puffy clouds on top, flat on the bottom, sometimes lead to precipitation

• Medium level stratus clouds that are higher than regular stratus clouds and lead to precipitation

• Medium level cumulus clouds that are higher than regular cumulus clouds and lead to precipitation

• High, thin wispy clouds made of ice crystals that indicate fair weather

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