The Water Cycle Hydrologic Cycle

What step of the hydrologic cycle is responsible for transporting pollution from farms into nearby streams, rivers and eventually to lakes?

• run-off

• infiltration

• evaporation

• condensation

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Water soaking into the ground after precipitation occurs.

• condensation

• evaporation

• infilitration

• accumulation

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What is it called when water is let out through the stomata of plants as water vapor?

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

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What percent of the Earth's freshwater is available for use by humans?

• 25%

• 10%

• 3%

• <1%

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An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water?

• Reservoir

• Aquifer

• Groundwater

• Watershed

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_____________________ is the conversion between the solid and the gaseous phases of matter, with no intermediate liquid stage. For those of us interested in the water cycle, _____________ is most often used to describe the process of snow and ice changing into water vapor in the air without first melting into water.

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Snowmelt runoff

• Sublimation

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is surface runoff produced from melting snow. It can also be used to describe the period or season during which such runoff is produced.

• Surface Runoff

• Snowmelt Runoff

• Groundwater Flow

• Precipitation

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is water taken from the groundwater flow and soil moisture. Only 1% of water the plant draws up is used by the plant. The remaining 99% is passed back into the atmosphere.

• Condensation

• Infiltration

• Surface runoff

• Plant uptake

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_____________________ of water underground in aquifers. The water may return to the surface in springs or eventually seep into the oceans.

• Groundwater flow

• Surface Runoff

• Precipitation

• Condensation

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________________ is movement of water past the soil going deep into the groundwater.

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Percolation

• Sublimation

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