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The Water Cycle Quiz
Created by kmarcano
Review what you have learned about the water cycle!
Instructions: Match up each word with with the best definition. Then, place the word in the right place on the diagram.
- 1. evaporation
- 2. condensation
- 3. transpiration
- 4. precipitation
- 5. Sun
- 6. water cycle
- 7. accumulation
- a. water vapor released from plants into the atmosphere.
- b. when the water droplets get too heavy the fall in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
- c. the main source of energy that drives the water cycle
- d. the process where water gathers and collects in various bodies of water on Earth
- e. heat from the sun causes water to rise in the form of water vapor, changes a liquid to a gas
- f. water vapor turns into water droplets due to the cool air in atmosphere, changes from a gas to a liquid
- g. the ongoing, endless process of water evaporating, condensing, and precipitating
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The Water Cycle Quiz (Answer Key)
Created by kmarcano
Review what you have learned about the water cycle!
Instructions: Match up each word with with the best definition. Then, place the word in the right place on the diagram.
- e 1. evaporation
- f 2. condensation
- a 3. transpiration
- b 4. precipitation
- c 5. Sun
- g 6. water cycle
- d 7. accumulation
- a. water vapor released from plants into the atmosphere.
- b. when the water droplets get too heavy the fall in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
- c. the main source of energy that drives the water cycle
- d. the process where water gathers and collects in various bodies of water on Earth
- e. heat from the sun causes water to rise in the form of water vapor, changes a liquid to a gas
- f. water vapor turns into water droplets due to the cool air in atmosphere, changes from a gas to a liquid
- g. the ongoing, endless process of water evaporating, condensing, and precipitating
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