Science Unit

This cycle shows the way water evaporates from Earth’s surface into the air, condenses, and falls back to the surface as precipitation.

What is this cycle called?

• A. the water cycle

• B. the weather cycle

• C. the precipitation cycle

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Which part of the day usually is coolest?

• B. evening

• C. night

• A. afternoon

What does a weather pattern show?

• A. no change in the weather over time

• B. a weather change that happens once

• C. a weather change that happens over and over

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Every winter it snows in a certain place. Every spring the snow melts and the temperatures rise. What is this an example of?

• A. a year

• B. a weather effect

• C. a weather pattern

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Water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back again through which process?

• A. precipitation

• B. the wind cycle

• C. the water cycle

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What is a weather change that repeats over and over called?

• A. the water cycle

• B. a weather pattern

• C. a weather report

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What is one tool used to track weather?

• B. water cycle

• C. weather prediction

• A. satellite

This chart shows one town’s average temperatures for four months of the year.

Which is true?

• A. May has the warmest average temperature.

• B. December has the coldest average temperature.

• C. September has the warmest average temperature.

You observe the weather for five days and make this chart.

Which observation is correct?

• A. It was coldest during sunny weather.

• B. The temperature was the same on the two rainy days.

• C. On Friday, the temperature was lower than on the days that it rained.

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This diagram shoes three important processes in the water cycle, What does number 1 show?

• Evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

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