WATER Cycle Vocabulary
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  • 1. rain, sleet, snow or hail that falls to the ground
A) transpiration
B) condensation
C) gravity
D) precipitation
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  • 2. The process of water molecules entering the air from a tree or other plant
A) precipitation
B) condensation
C) infiltration
D) transpiration
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  • 3. The process of water molecules coming together in the atmosphere (cloud formation)
A) transpiration
B) condensation
C) infiltration
D) precipitation
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  • 4. The process of water changing from a liquid to a gas
A) precipitation
B) condensation
C) evaporation
D) magic
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  • 5. The source of energy that drives the water cycle
A) moon
B) gravity
C) atmosphere
D) sun
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  • 6. Water flowing on top of the earth's surface
A) runoff
B) percolation
C) infiltration
D) precipitation
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  • 7. Which of the following is NOT a quality of helathy fresh water?
A) cold
B) oxygen rich
C) clear
D) warm
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  • 8. The most common pollutant in Maine's fresh water
A) litter
B) soil
C) pet waste
D) car oil
  • 9. When water evaporates from the ocean what happens to the salt
A) it forms into clouds
B) nobody knows
C) it falls from the atmosphere as the water evaporates
D) it stays in the ocean
  • 10. What force brings water back to the oceans
A) hoses
B) gravity
C) cohesion
D) wind
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  • 11. Water droplets forming on the outside of a glass of ice water
A) perspiration
B) evaporation
C) precipitation
D) condensation
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  • 12. When water goes from a solid to a liquid
A) evaporation
B) freezing
C) melting
D) runoff
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  • 13. Water molecules are made of:
A) two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom
B) hydrogen only
C) 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom
D) oxygen only
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  • 14. The penny lab demonstrated:
A) melting
B) cohesion
C) the water cycle
D) freezing
  • 15. Water can be a solid, liquid, and gas
A) false
B) true
  • 16. An hour after Sam washed his favorite jeans outside to dry, the water molecules:
A) are in the air in invisible form
B) broke down into atoms of hydrogen and oxygen
C) went up to the sun
D) disappeared and no longer exists
  • 17. In order for water to change from a liquid to a gas
A) there is no change in energy
B) energy is removed
C) energy is added
  • 18. What water cycle process was not demonstrated in your basin?
A) precipitation
B) transpiration
C) evaporation
D) condensation
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