The Water Cycle - 6th Grade - STEMscopes

Which response best describes the water cycle?

• A cycle of water

• How water changes back and forth

• A process where water cycles between air, land, bodies of water, and living things

• Evaporation..

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Stages of the Water Cycle:

Where water in liquid form turns to gas or water vapor

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Collection

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Stages of the Water Cycle:

Where cold temperatures in the atmosphere cause water vapor to condense back into liquid form

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

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Stages of the Water Cycle:

When water, snow, hail, sleet falls from the sky after condensing

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Runoff

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Stages of the Water Cycle:

When surface water and runoff accumulates

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Collection

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Factors of the Water Cycle:

Rain, melted ice, or melted snow on the side of mountain cause ____________.

• Surface Runoff

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

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Factors of the Water Cycle:

Water that seeps into the ground/soil

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Percolation

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Factors of the Water Cycle:

When water is changed from liquid to gas from living things like plants

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Ground Water

• Condensation

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Factors of the Water Cycle:

Water that collects underground

• Ground Water

• Surface runoff

• Lakes

• Ponds

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Forces that Drive the Water Cycle:

The main force that keeps the Water Cycle continuing

• Wind

• Gravity

• Radiant Energy

• "The Force"

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