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Water Cycle
Test Description: 5.8B
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What provides the energy needed for evaporation to occur naturally in the water cycle?
A
Wind
B
Soil
C
Sun
D
Rivers
2) The Sun’s heat energy causes evaporation. Most of the evaporation on the Earth happens to water found in -
A
Underground
B
Oceans
C
Lakes
D
Rivers
3) What part of the water cycle is driven by the Sun's heat?
A
Precipitation
B
Accumulation
C
Evaporation
D
Condensation
4) The Sun drives the water cycle by doing which of the following?
A
Keeping Earth in orbit
B
Providing heat for evaporation
C
Rotating on its axis
D
Giving off light for plants
5) Water on the Earth moves through the water cycle because of energy that comes from the –
A
Earth’s core
B
Sun’s heat
C
Moon’s gravity
D
Wind’s movement
6) Students created a model of the water cycle by heating a beaker of water on a hot plate and allowing water vapor to condense on the bottom of a metal pan filled with ice cubes. What part of their model is doing the same job as the Sun?
A
Ice cubes
B
Beaker of water
C
Metal pan
D
Hot plate
7) Most evaporation in the water cycle happens from oceans. This is because oceans –
A
contain water with salt dissolved in it
B
have currents that constantly mix them
C
expose the most water to the Sun’s energy
D
reach the poles where sheets of ice form
8) Sun’s heat causes which of the following movements of water in the water cycle?
A
Collection of water in lakes
B
Rivers flowing down mountains
C
Precipitation from clouds
D
Evaporation from oceans
9) The warming of water enough to change from a liquid to a gas
A
Oceans
B
Sun
C
Evaporation
D
Condensation
10) Large bodies of salt water covering nearly ¾ of Earth
A
Evaporation
B
Condensation
C
Sun
D
Oceans
11) Water that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, snow, or hail
A
Sun
B
Evaporation
C
Condensation
D
Precipitation
12) The cooling of water vapor enough to return to a liquid state
A
Condensation
B
Evaporation
C
Sun
D
Precipitation
13) The star in our solar system that provides light and heat energy
A
Sun
B
Mercury
C
Moon
D
Mars
14) What must occur for salt to be separated from ocean water?
A
Evaporation
B
Condensation
C
Accumulation
D
Precipitation
15) Tiny water droplets “bumping into” each other and collecting in larger, visible drops that fall is known as -
A
Runoff
B
Accumulation
C
Evaporation
D
Precipitation
16) The movement of water through Earth and its atmosphere is known as the -
A
Precipitation
B
Water Cycle
C
Accumulation
D
Evaporation
17) Water flowing over the ground in rivers and streams is called-
A
Runoff
B
Precipitation
C
Accumulation
D
Evaporation
18) Water that collects underground in aquifers is called-
A
Underground oceans
B
Caves
C
Ground water
D
Rivers and streams
19) When water evaporates directly from the leaves of plants it is called-
A
Evaporation
B
Sweating
C
Transpiration
D
Plant evaporation
20) The amount of water on Earth has not increased or decreased.
A
There is no way to know
B
True
C
False
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