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Water Cycle Part 1.
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What three factors describe the movement of surface water in streams and rivers?
a) gradient, flow, and stream load
b) gradient, ground water and rivers
c) flow, rivers, and runoff
d) runoff, evaporation, and condensation
How does gradient of a river affect its flow?
a) The lower the gradient, the faster the river flows
b) The higher the gradient, the faster the river flows
c) The higher the gradient, the slower the river flows
d) The lower the gradient, the faster the river flows
How quickly would groundwater flow through rock with high porosity and high permeability?
a) It would flow fast because there is high pore space and water can flow easily.
b) It would flow slow because there is high pore space and water can flow easily.
c) It would flow fast because there is low pore space and water can flow easily.
d) It would flow slow because there is low pore space and water can flow easily.
What are the three ways in which water reaches the atmosphere?
a) Evaporation, transpiration, and runoff
b) Evaporation, transpiration, and sublimation
c) Condensation, transpiration, and sublimation
d) Evaporation, runoff, and sublimation
Which of the processes of the water cycle occur by releasing energy?
a) condensation, precipitation, freezing, and depositing
b) Evaporation, transpiration, and sublimation
c) transpiration, precipitation, freezing, and depositing
d) condensation, precipitation, freezing, and gradient
What happens to water cone it reaches Earth's surface?
a) On land, water flows downhill. In the oceans, water flows in ocean currents
b) The water pools
c) It condenses
d) It freezes
Describe how three common types of precipitation forms?
a) Water vapor condenses forming water droplets, In clouds, water droplets collide forming large droplets, Large droplets fall.
b) Water vapor evaporate forming water droplets, In clouds, water droplets collide forming large droplets, Large droplets fall.
c) Water forms water droplets, In clouds, water droplets collide forming large droplets, and then nothing happens
d) Nothing
What is the dew-point temperature at which a cloud formation begins?
a) 16 degrees celsius
b) 25 degrees celsius
c) 30 degrees celsius
d) 32 degrees celsius
Why is Earth considered the Blue Planet?
a) Because over 2% or almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
b) Because over 71% or almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
c) Because over 50% or almost half of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
d) Because over 25% or almost one-quarters of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
Three percent of the Earth's water is ___________________, while salt water is _________.
a) 3% and 97%
b) 2% and 98%
c) 1% and 99%
d) 4% and 96%
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