Study Guide Game Cards

The WaterCycle

Quiz Card One

What do you call it when water is turned into water vapor?

Answer Quiz Card One

Evaporation

Quiz Card TwoWhat do you call the process where plants release water vapor into the air during photosynthesis ?

Answer Quiz Card Two

Transpiration

Quiz Card Three

What do you call water that turns into a gas?

Answer Quiz Card Three

Water vapor

Quiz Card Four

What do you call the process where water vapor turns back into water?

Answer Quiz Card Four

Condensation

Quiz Card Five

What is formed when water vapor condenses on millions of tiny dust particles in the sky?

Clouds

Answer Quiz Card Five

Quiz Card Six

What do you call it when water, as a liquid or a solid, falls from the sky?

Answer Quiz Card Six

Precipitation

Quiz Card SevenWhat do you call the rain that flows down over the earth into streams, rivers, and finally the ocean?

Run off

Answer Quiz Card Seven

Quiz Card Eight

What natural disaster happens when the Earth is unable to absorb all the run off?

Answer Quiz Card Eight

Floods

Quiz Card Nine

What do you call the forms of precipitation that are frozen?

Snow, sleet and hail.

Answer Quiz Card Nine

Quiz Card TenWhat do you call the condensation that is found on the ground in the morning when the temperature is above freezing?

Answer Quiz Card Ten

Dew

Quiz Card Eleven

What do you call the condensation you find on the ground when it is below freezing?

Frost

Answer Quiz Card Eleven

Quiz Card TwelveWhat do you call the water that is stored under the ground? Remember that wells tap into this water.

Answer Quiz Card Twelve

Groundwater

Quiz Card Thirteen

Sometimes water can be contaminated. Where can the water be cleaned for use?

Answer Quiz Card Thirteen

A water treatment plant.

Quiz Card Fourteen

Sometimes people will block a river to capture water. What is the structure called that holds back the water?

Answer Quiz Card Fourteen

A dam

Quiz Card Fifteen

What do you call the water that is held back by a dam?

Answer Quiz Card Fifteen

A reservoir

Quiz Card SixteenWhat do you call the entire process that includes evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?

The water cycle.

Answer Quiz Card Sixteen