Worksheet

The Water Cycle

Grade 5 - Science - Building Confidence

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  1. Which water-cycle stage means "water flows over land into streams, rivers, or lakes"?

    • evaporation
    • runoff
    • collection
    • condensation

  2. What usually comes after precipitation in this water movement path?

    • collection
    • collection or runoff
    • evaporation
    • runoff

  3. What happens before transpiration in this model?

    • collection
    • runoff
    • plant water uptake
    • precipitation

  4. Which statement helps explain transpiration in the water cycle?

    • a food web predator
    • a possessive apostrophe
    • magnetic attraction only
    • sunlight helps move water through plants

  5. Which description belongs with runoff?

    • water flows over land into streams, rivers, or lakes
    • water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
    • plants release water vapor from leaves
    • water gathers in oceans, lakes, groundwater, or ice

  6. Which water-cycle stage means "water gathers in oceans, lakes, groundwater, or ice"?

    • runoff
    • collection
    • condensation
    • precipitation

  7. What usually comes after transpiration in this water movement path?

    • collection
    • condensation
    • transpiration
    • runoff

  8. What happens before evaporation in this model?

    • collection
    • precipitation
    • transpiration
    • evaporation

  9. Which statement helps explain collection in the water cycle?

    • a possessive apostrophe
    • magnetic attraction only
    • water stores before moving again
    • a food web predator

  10. Which description belongs with evaporation?

    • water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
    • water flows over land into streams, rivers, or lakes
    • liquid water changes to water vapor
    • water gathers in oceans, lakes, groundwater, or ice
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