Water Cycle 1
The water cycle is driven by gravity and the ______.
A. Sun
B. Clouds
C. Ocean
A. sun
The cooling process by which a gas changes back into a liquid:
A. Sublimation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
B. condensation
CANDY!
This is is the process of water being soaked into the ground
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Percolation
percolation
CANDY
What force pulls water from clouds down to earth in the form of precipitation?
Gravity
Water leaves a plant through:
A. Transpiration
B. Condensation
C. Evaporation
A. Transpiration
Occurs when plant leaves open and release water into the atmosphere:
A. Transpiration
B. Ground water
C. Evaporation
A. Transpiration
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process.
A. Precipitation
B. Transpiration
C.Condensation
B. transpiration
The gas form of water:
A. Watershed
B. Aquifer
C. Water vapor
Water Vapor
Where does most of the earths evaporation come from
A. Groundwater
B. Lakes
C. Oceans
oceans
True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from millions of years ago.
True
Water vapor rising into the air and cooling back into liquid water drops forms:
A. Clouds
B. Lightning
C. Thunder
.A. Clouds
96% of Earth's water is stored in:
A. Glaciers
B. Oceans
C. Water vapor
B. oceans
Which is not a form of precipitation?
A. Hail
B. Water vapor
C. Snow
B. Water vapor
CANDY
When water vapor turns into a liquid in the atmosphere it forms...
A. Groundwater
B. Clouds
C. Sublimation
a cloud.
any form of water that falls from the clouds
A. precipitation
B. Sublimation
C. Evaporation
precipitation
True or False: the water cycle never stops
True
Refers to the ability of a material (like soil, rock, or a membrane) to allow liquids or gases to pass through it
A. Porosity
B. Permeability
C. Infiltration
B. Permeability
When water moves from the sky to the earth this happens:
A. Precipitation
B. Sublimation
C. Cloud formation
A. precipitation
What is water found underground called?
A. Lakes
B. Ground water
C. Accumulation
Ground Water
True or False? Water is created during the Water Cycle
False
The process of liquid turning into a gas.
A. Precipitation
B. Evaporation
C. Condensation
Evaporation
A body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
A. Aquifer
B. Watershed
C. Porosity
A. aquifer
What type of precipitation falls as frozen crystals?
Snow
What determines the type of precipitation we will have?
A. Wind
B. Clouds
C. Temperature
C. Temperature
Water that moves along the ground surface to bodies of water.
A. Run off
B. Percolation
C. Aquifer
A. Run off
Where or in what form is most of Earth's Freshwater
A. Underground aquifer
B. Glaciers
C. Ocean
Ice form - Glaciers/iceburgs
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different bodies of water
A. Basin
B. Watershed
C. Percolation
B. watershed
What are two elements that make up water?
A. Nitrogen and oxygen
B. Helium and oxygen
C. Hydrogen and oxygen
C. what are Hydrogen and Oxygen
The changing state of a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid:
A. Condensation
B. Evaporation
C. Sublimation
C. Sublimation
What % of water is released through transpiration?
A. 20
B. 90
C. 10
10%