Water Cycle Quiz

What is the process called when rain, hail, sleet, and snow fall from the clouds?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

What happens when water vapor cools and turns into clouds?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Infiltration

• Surface run-off

Which process involves the sun heating up water from the sea, causing it to go into the air?

• Groundwater flow

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Infiltration

What is it called when water flows horizontally through rocks underground?

• Surface run-off

• Groundwater flow

• Condensation

• Transpiration

What term describes water running off the surface of the ground?

• Infiltration

• Evaporation

• Surface run-off

• Precipitation

When the sun heats up water from the leaves of trees, what is this process called?

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Infiltration

• Precipitation

What is the process of water moving from the surface into the soil?

• Evaporation

• Infiltration

• Groundwater flow

• Surface run-off

What is the process called when water is absorbed into the ground?

• Evaporation

• Infiltration

• Transpiration

• Surface run-off

Which process involves water being released from plants into the atmosphere?

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Infiltration

• River discharge

Which process describes the movement of water from the soil to the river?

• Evaporation

• Throughflow

• Transpiration

• Infiltration