Question 7:
Which phrase from paragraph 5 best helps the reader understand the meaning of groundwater?
A) "get too heavy" B) "hail, snow, or rain" C) "oceans, lakes, river" D) "seeps into the soil"
D) Seeps into the soil
Question 3:
Which option best describes the steps of the water cycle?
A, B, or C
A. Water becomes water vapor and rises to form clouds-> it rains, snows or hails when clouds get heavy-> water goes into rivers, lakes, oceans and the soil
Question 6:
What is the meaning of groundwater?
A, B or C
A) Precipitation that goes into the dirt
Question 5:
Based on the meaning of the prefix "re", what is the meaning of recycling water in the title "Recycling Water in the Well"?
A, B, C or D
A) To use water again
A(n) ______ is a word that names a person, place or thing, or idea.
A. Noun
Question 4
What needs to happen right before water rises to the sky as water vapor?
A, B, or C
B) Water has to evaporate from various bodies of water, plants, and animals
Question 8:
Read paragraph 8. What is precipitation?
A, B, C, or D
C) What happens when the clouds get too heavy and it falls as rain, hail, or snow
Question 9:
Based on the meaning of the word continuous, what does the word continuously mean as it is used in paragraph 5?
A, B, C, or D
A) Continue without a stop
D. pronoun
It takes about one million tiny water droplets to make just one raindrop.
The suffix "-let" means something small. What is a droplet as it is used in this sentence?
A, B, C, or D
B) A small amount of water
Question 16: Read the paragraph from the text
Why are oceans salty? Rivers flow into the sea, collecting salt from rocks and soil and adding it to the ocean. As ocean water evaporates, the salt is left behind.
Which word does the pronoun it replace in this paragraph?B. Salt
Question 11:
Read this sentence form page 8.
Year after year, water continuously circulates through the water cycle.
Think about the meaning of the word circle. What does the word circulate mean?
C. Keep moving around
Question 14: What is the function of the word rainforest in this sentence?
The water you drank today may have been rained down on the Amazon rainforest five years ago.
C) It tells a place where the water may have been