The Water Cycle Review 2026

Water Cycle 1

100

The water cycle is driven by gravity and the ______.

A. Sun

B. Clouds

C. Ocean

A. sun

200

Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process.

A. Precipitation

B. Transpiration

C.Condensation

 B. transpiration

300

Which is not a form of precipitation?

A. Hail

B. Water vapor

C. Snow

B. Water vapor

400

What is water found underground called?

A. Lakes

B. Ground water

C. Accumulation

Ground Water

500

Water that moves along the ground surface to bodies of water.

A. Run off

B. Percolation

C. Aquifer

A. Run off

 

Water Cycle 2

100

The cooling process by which a gas changes back into a liquid:

A. Sublimation

B. Condensation

C. Precipitation

B. condensation

200

The gas form of water:

A. Watershed

B. Aquifer

C. Water vapor

Water Vapor

300

CANDY

When water vapor turns into a liquid in the atmosphere it forms...

A. Groundwater

B. Clouds

C. Sublimation

a cloud.

400

True or False? Water is created during the Water Cycle

False

500

Where or in what form is most of Earth's Freshwater

A. Underground aquifer

B. Glaciers

C. Ocean

Ice form - Glaciers/iceburgs

Water Cycle 3

100

                   CANDY!

This is is the process of water being soaked into the ground 

A. Evaporation

B. Condensation

C. Percolation

percolation

200

Where does most of the earths evaporation come from

A. Groundwater

B. Lakes

C. Oceans

oceans

300

any form of water that falls from the clouds

A. precipitation

B. Sublimation

C. Evaporation

precipitation

400

The process of liquid turning into a gas.

A. Precipitation

B. Evaporation

C. Condensation

Evaporation

500

An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different bodies of water

A. Basin

B. Watershed

C. Percolation

B. watershed

Water Cycle 4

100

CANDY

What force pulls water from clouds down to earth in the form of precipitation? 

Gravity

200

True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from millions of years ago.

True

300

True or False: the water cycle never stops

True

400

A body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

A. Aquifer

B. Watershed

C. Porosity

A. aquifer

500

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

Water Cycle 5

100

Water leaves a plant through:

A. Transpiration

B. Condensation

C. Evaporation

A. Transpiration

200

Water vapor rising into the air and cooling back into liquid water drops forms:

A. Clouds

B. Lightning

C. Thunder

.A. Clouds

300

 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

400

What type of precipitation falls as frozen crystals? 

Snow

500

The changing state of a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid:

A. Condensation

B. Evaporation

C. Sublimation

C. Sublimation

Water Cycle 6

100

 Occurs when plant leaves open and release water into the atmosphere:

A. Transpiration

B. Ground water

C. Evaporation

A. Transpiration

200

96% of Earth's water is stored in:

A. Glaciers

B. Oceans

C. Water vapor

B. oceans

300

When water moves from the sky to the earth this happens:

A. Precipitation

B. Sublimation

C. Cloud formation

A. precipitation

400

What determines the type of precipitation we will have?

A. Wind

B. Clouds

C. Temperature

C. Temperature

500

What % of water is released through transpiration?

A. 20

B. 90

C. 10

10%