The Water Cycle

Question or Hint Answer or Word
  1. Where does the energy for the water cycle come from? The Sun (wrong answers: The spin of the Earth, The moon, Fossil fuels, Electricity)
  2. Which of the following is NOT a way that water moves from the land to the atmosphere? precipitation (wrong answers: condensation, evaporation, transpiration, sublimination)
  3. Rain, snow, hail and sleet are all examples of which stage of the water cycle? precipitation (wrong answers: evaporation, condensation, run-off)
  4. On a mountain in the spring, snow melts and trickles into a creek. In turn, the creek flows into a river, which eventually reaches the ocean. Of which part of the water cycle is this an example? run-off (wrong answers: precipitation, condensation, infiltration)
  5. What is it called when plants release water that turns into vapor? transpiration (wrong answers: evaporation, precipitation, sublimination, condensation)
  6. The layer of gas surrounding planet Earth that's held held in place by gravity and composed of a limited number of elements (primarily nitrogen and Oxygen) is: atmosphere (wrong answers: hydrosphere, modosphere, cloud Layer)
  7. The average weather conditions for a region year after year; long term patterns of temperature and precipitation in an area: climate (wrong answers: weather, weather pattern, water Cycle)

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