Water Cycle Practice Quiz

Which choice shows the correct order that water takes as it travels through the water cycle?

• precipitation, runoff, evaporation, precipitation
• infiltration, runoff, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration
• condensation, precipitation, infiltration, percolation, groundwater, evaporation
• runoff, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, groundwater

What is an aquifer?

• the location runoff goes
• the area where groundwater is stored
• the location that supplies water to a river
• all of the above

When does water vapor change back to a liquid?

• during transpiration
• when it rains
• when water vapor cools
• when heat energy is absorbed by the water

What does the water cycle do?

• causes the water on Earth to move and change states
• causes the amount of saltwater on Earth to decrease
• forms icecaps and glaciers
• removes water vapor from the atmosphere

What causes precipitation?

• gravity pulling larger droplets down
• gravity causing small droplets to become larger
• water vapor rising and sinking
• gravity pulling on the water vapor

Water that does not enter the soil will most likely?

• disappear
• runoff
• form groundwater
• all of the above

Precipitation is the process when

• clouds form
• rain, sleet, snow, and hail return to the surface
• water vapor changes to liquid
• none of the above

Gravity plays a role in which part(s) of the water cycle?

• runoff
• infiltration
• percolation
• all of the above

What is the role of the Sun in the water cycle?

• it causes condensation
• it causes evaporation
• it causes precipitation
• all of the above

When liquid water flows over the surface of the Earth it is known as

• precipitation
• condensation
• groundwater
• runoff