Water Cycle Quiz

What is the process of a substance in a liquid state changing to a gaseous state due to an increase in temperature and/or pressure?

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Precipitation

What is the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid called?

• Transpiration

• Infiltration

• Condensation

• Percolation

Which process involves the land warming up, causing air to expand, rise, cool, and condense, leading to rain?

• Convectional rainfall

• Precipitation

• Interception

• Overland Flow

What is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase without passing through the liquid phase?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Sublimation

• Infiltration

What is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor?

• Transpiration

• Precipitation

• Interception

• Throughflow

What is the transfer of water from the atmosphere to the ground, which can take the form of rain, snow, hail, or dew?

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Infiltration

What is the term for water intercepted and stored on the leaves of plants?

• Interception

• Transpiration

• Percolation

• Groundwater Flow

What is the transfer of water over the land surface called?

• Throughflow

• Overland Flow

• Infiltration

• Groundwater Flow

What is the transfer of water from the ground surface into soil where it may then percolate into underlying rocks?

• Infiltration

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

What is the term for water flowing through soil towards a river channel?

• Percolation

• Throughflow

• Interception

• Overland Flow