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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which example is a form of precipitation?
Dew
Fog
Frost
Hail
- 2. Multiple Choice
In which area would the rate of evaporation be the lowest?
Over the ocean
Over the mountains
Over the rainforest
Over the desert
- 3. Multiple Choice
As a part of the water cycle, water from Earth's surface enters the clouds and finally falls back to the ground in the form of rain. What is the correct sequence of processes water undergoes?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
Precipitation, Condensation, Evaporation
Condensation, Evaporation, Precipitation
Evaporation, Precipitation, Condensation
- 4. Multiple Choice
What would happen if the Sun is removed from the water cycle?
The water cycle would not include precipitation but would continue with groundwater flow.
The water cycle would no longer occur because the Sun provides the energy for evaporation and transpiration.
The water cycle would no longer occur because the Sun provides energy for the formation of clouds.
The water cycle would not include evaporation and transpiration but would continue with condensation.
- 5. Multiple Choice
A student draws a model to represent the precesses involved in the water cycle, as shown. To which process is the formation of clouds related?
Condensation
Evaporation
Freezing
Melting
- 6. Multiple Choice
The image shows various stages in the water cycle. During which stage does water flow back towards the sea as runoff?
W
X
Y
Z
- 7. Multiple Choice
On Earth, what process generates most of the water vapor?
Condensation
Evaporation
Precipitation
Transpiration
- 8. Multiple Choice
Rain and snow are two different forms of precipitation that fall on Earth's surface. Which factor is responsible for there being different forms of precipitation?
Evaporation
Run-off
Temperature
Transpiration
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is precipitation?
Sweat from our bodies on hot days
Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet
Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens
Any form of water that falls from the sky
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is another name or synonym for the water cycle?
Geologic cycle
Hydrologic cycle
Geosphere
Carbon cycle
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is the energy source that drives the water cycle?
The moon T
The heat from our home in the winter all around the world
The sun
he heat generated solely from the core of the earth
- 12. Multiple Choice
What are formed when water vapor condenses?
Clouds
Mountains
Transpiration
Valleys
- 13. Multiple Choice
The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat. ____________________
Evaporation
Convection
Precipitation
Transpiration
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?condensationevaporationsublimationtranspiration
- 15. Multiple Choice
Water in its gas form is called ____________________,
water vapor
precipitation
ice
air
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe atmosphere, the ground, and also bodies of water are all heated by the Sun's energy. How does this energy reach Earth?radiationconductionconvectiongravity
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWarm, less dense air (including vapor) rises in the atmosphere. Cool, more dense air (including vapor) sinks. This transfer is . . . .convectionconductionradiationgravity
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