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Water Cycle

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  • True or False: When water turns into a gas this is called evaporation.
    True
  • True or False: The amount of water on the Earth grows by 0% each year.
    True
  • True or False: The water cycle has no start or end
    True
  • Name all 4 forms of precipitation:
    Rain, sleet, snow, hail
  • True or False: Evaporation can only occur in salt water.
    False
  • Rainfall that is not absorbed by soil and travels down to a body of water
    Run-off
  • Water droplets fall from the atmosphere in different forms
    Precipitation 
  • Water in lakes and rivers that does not contain salt-
    Fresh Water
  • The passage of water vapor from a plant to the atmosphere
    Transpiration
  • The sun drives the water cycle by
    Heating the water
  • If water was heated in an experiment by a hot plate to model the water cycle, the hot plate represents-
    The sun
  • The cooling of water in the atmosphere changing from gas to a liquid.
    Condensation
  • True or False: More evaporation occurs during the day.
    True
  • The process when water changes from a liquid to a gas, caused by heat
    Evaporation