Water Cycle Student Worksheet

Student WorkSheet

The Hydrologic Cycle (DRAW YOUR OWN WATER CYCLE DIAGRAM BELOW)

How much do you remember about the water cycle and how it operates? Test yourself by defining each of the six hydrological terms below and then write the number beside each term in the appropriate box on the diagram. 1. Infiltration _________________________________________ 2. Precipitation _______________________________________ 3. Transpiration ______________________________________ 4. Evaporation _______________________________________ 5. Condensation _____________________________________ 6. Runoff ____________________________________________

The Water Cycle

How much do you know? 1. This is the name for rain or snow. A. Precipitation B. Condensation C. Evaporation 3. As water vapour rises, it meets cooler air that changes it back to water droplets or ice which form clouds. This is called… A. Evaporation B. Precipitation C. Condensation 4. The water that you had in your bath or shower you had last week… A. Has gone underground B. Has evaporated C. Is still in the water cycle 6. After rain falls on earth, it may… A. Evaporate B. Travel downhill until it reaches the sea C. Stay underground for years

2. As the sun warms the earth, it turns water on earth into water vapour that rises into the air. This is called… A. Evaporation B. Precipitation C. Condensation

5. The process that keeps water moving around the earth is called… A. The water cycle B. Precipitation B. Evaporation C. Condensation 7. If we use too much water, we could use up all of the water on earth. A. True B. False

8. Saving water is not important A. True B. False 1. What Is another name for the water cycle? 2. What energy source is needed to drive the water cycle? 3. When water evaporates, what does it become? 4. Name three forms of precipitation. 5. What are three things that can happen to the precipitation that falls to the Earth? 6. Water that percolates through the soil becomes part of a(an) __________________ or a part of the ___________________________________________________________ . 7. ____________________causes water vapor In clouds to turn into precipitation. 8. Eventually, groundwater becomes a part of a(an) _______________________ or a part of a(an) ________________________________________________________ 9. Put these steps of the water cycle Into the correct order: ______percolation or runoff ______evaporation ______condensation ______precipitation 10. Circle the words that belong with each step: Evaporation ______ water vapor ___ rain_________ water __________cloud Condensation ____ precipitation___ cloud _______ percolation _____water vapor

Precipitation _____ evaporation ___ percolation __ surface runoff _______ snow Percolation ______ aquifer _______ water vapor__ groundwater_________ rain