Chemistry

2.4: The Water cycle

A. Short Questions:

1. What is water cycle?

Answer: This circulation of water between the oceans and land is called water
cycle.

2. What is transpiration?

Answer: The process by which plants give off water vapor through the stomata in
their leaves.

3. What is evaporation?

Answer: Evaporation is the process by which a liquid turns into a gas.

4. What is condensation?

Answer: Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed
into liquid water; it's the opposite of evaporation.

5. What is precipitation?

Answer: Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing
rain, sleet, snow, or hail. Precipitation is the main way atmospheric water returns to
the surface of the Earth. Most precipitation falls as rain.

6. What is surface runoff?

Answer: Water that reaches the surface of the land may flow directly across the
ground into the rivers, lakes, and Oceans. This water is called surface run off.

7. What are the different types of precipitation?

Anawer: The four main types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, and hail

8.
Answer: Rain is formed during a process which is usually known as the water
cycle. The water cycle involves a number of steps, including evaporation, cloud
formation, precipitation (rain) and then evaporation again.

9. Use particle theory to explain how a pool of water on the road disappears.

Answer: The particles heat up on the ground and loosen up because of the heat
reducing the force of attraction between the particles t. In other word, Due to
evaporation the pool of water on road disappears.

10. Where does drinking water come from?

Answer: Drinking water comes from natural sources that are either groundwater or
surface water

B. Broad Questions:

1. Draw and explain Water cycle.

Answer: The water from the oceans and

surface of the earth evaporates and rises
up in the air. It cools and condenses to
form clouds and then falls back to the
earth as rain, snow or hail.
This circulation of water between the
oceans and land is called water cycle.

C. Multiple chooses Question:

1. When clouds get too heavy to hold water in the water cycle, what happens?

• The water falls to the Earth

• The water evaporates
• Another cloud forms
• The clouds get very large

2. Studying the water cycle, where is the purest water on Earth?

• Glaciers and ice caps
• Rivers and streams
• Sulfur springs
• Lakes and ponds

3. What is tapped into when digging a well looking for water in the water cycle?

• An underground aquifer
• An underground river
• A sulfur spring
• An irrigation ditch

4. What turns water on the Earth into vapor in the water cycle?

• The sun
• The moon
• Global warming
• Water treatment centers

5. Which stage is NOT part of the water cycle?

• Emancipation
• Collection
• Evaporation
• Precipitation

6. Studying the water cycle, why is the ocean salty?

• Groundwater picks up salt and minerals as it makes its way to the ocean
• It is rinsed from the scales and skin of ocean animals
• Salt is carried down in rainwater
• Human pollution made it that way

7. Considering the water cycle how old could the water be in glaciers and ice caps?
• Millions of years
• Billions of years
• Thousands of years
• Hundreds of years
8. Water that soaks into the ground is called what in the water cycle?

• Groundwater
• Water table
• Rainwater
• Collected
9. In the water cycle what is it called when water goes up through a plant and is
turned into a
vapor?

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Collection
• Condensation

10. Condensation is when warm vapor rises, gets cold and does what In the water
cycle?

• Gathers in clouds
• Falls out of the sky
• Warms up again
• Keeps rising until it turns to ice