1. The Water Cycle
Study Guide Game Cards

2. Quiz Card One
What do you call it when water is turned into water vapor?

3. Answer Quiz Card One
Evaporation

4. Quiz Card Two
What do you call the process where plants release water vapor into the air during photosynthesis ?

5. Answer Quiz Card Two
Transpiration

6. Quiz Card Three
What do you call water that turns into a gas?

7. Answer Quiz Card Three
Water vapor

8. Quiz Card Four
What do you call the process where water vapor turns back into water?

9. Answer Quiz Card Four
Condensation

10. Quiz Card Five
What is formed when water vapor condenses on millions of tiny dust particles in the sky?

11. Answer Quiz Card Five
Clouds

12. Quiz Card Six
What do you call it when water, as a liquid or a solid, falls from the sky?

13. Answer Quiz Card Six
Precipitation

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

15. Answer Quiz Card Seven
Run off

16. Quiz Card Eight
What natural disaster happens when the Earth is unable to absorb all the run off?

17. Answer Quiz Card Eight
Floods

18. Quiz Card Nine
What do you call the forms of precipitation that are frozen?

19. Answer Quiz Card Nine
Snow, sleet and hail.

20. Quiz Card Ten
What do you call the condensation that is found on the ground in the morning when the temperature is above freezing?

21. Answer Quiz Card Ten
Dew

22. Quiz Card Eleven
What do you call the condensation you find on the ground when it is below freezing?

23. Answer Quiz Card Eleven
Frost

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

25. Answer Quiz Card Twelve
Groundwater

26. Quiz Card Thirteen
Sometimes water can be contaminated. Where can the water be cleaned for use?

27. Answer Quiz Card Thirteen
A water treatment plant.

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

29. Answer Quiz Card Fourteen
A dam

30. Quiz Card Fifteen
What do you call the water that is held back by a dam?

31. Answer Quiz Card Fifteen
A reservoir

32. Quiz Card Sixteen
What do you call the entire process that includes evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?

33. Answer Quiz Card Sixteen
The water cycle.