Science Water Cycle Review

What is another name for the water cycle?

• Perspiration Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Hydrologic Cycle

• Life Cycle

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The ocean holds 96.5% of Earth's water and is the primary pathway into the water cycle

• True

• False

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The process by which water falls back to the ground from clouds

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Subimation

• Condensation

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The process by which liquid water changes into a gas

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

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The process by which water changes from a gas to liquid

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Sublimation

• Condensation

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Gravity is not a factor in the water cycle

• True

• False

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Water that is not absorbed into the soil or evaporated into the atmosphere

• Infiltration

• Runoff

• Water Storage

• Watershed

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The process where water soaks into soil or porous rock

• Infiltration

• Runoff

• Water Storage

• Watershed

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Which of the following processes most directly affects the amount of water entering earth's atmosphere?

• precipitation and runoff

• condensation and precipitation

• transpiration and evaporation

• infiltration and recharge

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Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water. Which process is represented by letter F?

• Capillarity

• Infiltration

• Condensation

• Vaporization

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