Week 2: Basic Water Cycle Quiz
PAPER CODE: G. S-1011 Instructions: There is a total of 14 questions in this paper. The entire paper is divided into two sections, A and B. All sections are compulsory. Questions in each section are of different types. Section – A contains a total of 10 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). Each MCQ type question has four choices out of which only one choice is the correct answer. Section – B contains a total of 4 Structured and short assay questions.
- 1.Where does the energy for the water cycle come from?
- A.
A) Moon
- B.
B) Fossil fuel
- C.
C) Sun
- D.
D) Electricity
- 2.Which of the following is NOT a way that water moves from the land to the atmosphere?
- A.
A) Evaporation
- B.
B) Precipitation
- C.
C) Sublimation
- D.
D) Transpiration
- 3.In what form can we see water in the atmosphere?
- A.
A) Lakes
- B.
B) Rivers
- C.
C) Oceans
- D.
D) Clouds
- 4.The water cycle is…………………………………………………….?
- A.
A) The continuous movement of water
- B.
B) How water goes through a house
- C.
C) The stuff in water
- D.
D) All the above
- 5.When water turns to vapor and rises into the atmosphere its called……………………….?
- A.
A) Evaporation
- B.
B) Transpiration
- C.
C) Sublimation
- D.
D) Precipitation
- 6.95% of the earth’s water is stored in its:
- A.
A) Rivers
- B.
B) Oceans
- C.
C) Glaciers
- D.
D) Underground aquifers
- 7.When water vapor cools into a liquid it’s called:
- A.
A) Condensation
- B.
B) Transpiration
- C.
C) Sublimation
- D.
D) Precipitation
- 8.When water droplets get large enough to fall from the cloud it’s called:
- A.
A) Condensation
- B.
B) Transpiration
- C.
C) Sublimation
- D.
D) Precipitation
- 9.Fresh water running underground are called:
- A.
A) Rivers
- B.
B) Streams
- C.
C) Creeks
- D.
D) Aquifers
- 10.Water entering the ground through…………………………
- A.
A) Condensation
- B.
B) Transpiration
- C.
C) Infiltration
- D.
D) Groundwater discharge
- 11.What is water cycle?
- 12.How is water essential to living things
- 13.Differentiate between infiltration and runoff?
- 14.Describe the main stages of the water cycle?
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