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. 2. As the sun warms the earth, it turns
A. Precipitation water
B. Condensation on earth into water vapour that rises
C. Evaporation into the
air. This is called…
3. As water vapour rises, it meets A. Evaporation
cooler air B. Precipitation
that changes it back to water droplets C. Condensation
or ice
which form clouds. This is called…
A. Evaporation
B. Precipitation 5. The process that keeps water
C. Condensation moving
around the earth is called…
4. The water that you had in your bath or A. The water cycle
shower you had last week… B. Precipitation
A. Has gone underground B. Evaporation
B. Has evaporated C. Condensation
C. Is still in the water cycle
7. If we use too much water, we
6. After rain falls on earth, it may… could use
A. Evaporate up all of the water on earth.
B. Travel downhill until it reaches the sea A. True
C. Stay underground for years 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