Water Cycle 1
The water cycle is driven by the ______.
The Sun.
The cooling process by which a gas changes back into a liquid.
What is Condensation.
About how much of the water on Earth is salt water?
A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 4/5
D. 9.7/10
D. 9.7
What force pulls water from clouds down to earth in the form of precipitation?
What is Gravity.
Water leaves a plant through it's.
A. Stem
B. Roots
C. Leaves
D. Bud
C. leaves.
About how much of the water on Earth is drinkable water?
A. Half
B. 2/3s
C.10%
D. Less than 1%
D. Less than 1%
Plants contribute to the water cycle through this process.
What is Transpiration.
What is the gas form of water.
What is Water Vapor.
Where does most of the earths evaporation come from.
A. The Ocean and Seas
B. Lakes and Rivers
C. Swimming Pools
D. Underwater wells
A. Oceans and Seas
True or False - The water you are drinking might be water from millions of years ago.
What is True.
What causes clouds to form?
What is Water vapor rising into the air and cooling back into liquid water drops.
The Water Cycle is infinite? True or False
True
Name two forms of precipitation.
What are rain, hail, sleet, and snow.
When water vapor turns into a liquid in the atmosphere it forms...
What is a cloud.
Any form of water that falls from the clouds.
What is precipitation.
About how long can humans survive without water?
What is ~3 days.
Run off depends on _______ to move water across land.
A. Gravity
B. Temperature
C. Decomposition
D. Salt content
A. gravity.
When water moves from the sky to the earth what happens.
Precipitation.
What is water found underground called?
A. Well water
B. Tap Water
C. Ground water
D. Spring Water
C. Ground Water.
True or False? Water is created during the Water Cycle.
What is False.
The energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun.
When liquid water turns to water vapor.
What is Evaporation.
What type of precipitation falls as frozen crystals?
What is Snow.
The process of condensation is when a gas turns into a
A. Another gas
B. Liquid
C. Solid
D. All of the above
B. Liquid.
The water you drink was formed how long ago?
A. Weeks ago
B. Months ago
C. Decades ago
D. Millions of years ago?
D. Millions of years ago
Where or in what form is most of Earth's Freshwater.
What are Ice form - Glaciers/ice burgs.
List the water cycle steps in order.
A. Condensation, Evaporation, Sublimation, Transpiration, Precipitation, Runoff, Infiltration, Groundwater Accumulation,
B. Sublimation, Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff, Infiltration, Accumulation, Groundwater.
C. Transpiration, Condensation, Runoff, Precipitation, Sublimation, Infiltration, Accumulation, Groundwater.
B. Sublimation, Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff, Infiltration, Accumulation, Groundwater.
What are two elements that make up water, and how many atoms of each are required?
A. 2 Hydrogen & 1 Oxygen Atoms.
B. 3 Hydrogen and 6 Carbon
C. 2 Hydrogen and 1 oxygen and 1 Carbon
D. 4 Hydrogen and 2 Carbon and 2 Oxygen
A. 2 Hydrogen & 1 Oxygen Atoms.
Name 2 processes that absorb energy in order to happen.
A. Sublimation and Condensation
B. Evaporation and transpiration
C. Condensation and Percipatation
D. All of the above
B. evaporation and transpiration.
Why does the salt from the oceans not evaporate with the rest of the water?
A. It's too heavy
B. Too Dense
C. Too much energy
D. Not enough energy
A. Salt is too heavy to evaporate with the rest of the water.