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Which energy source mainly powers the water cycle?Read the answer and worked solution →Which process turns water vapour into droplets that form clouds and fog?Read the answer and worked solution →What do we call the release of water vapour from plants into the air?Read the answer and worked solution →Rain, snow, hail and sleet are all forms of which process?Read the answer and worked solution →Which term means water flowing vertically down through soil and rock under gravity?Read the answer and worked solution →The flow of water from the ground surface into the ground is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly what share of all water on the planet is held by the ocean?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of global evaporation occurs over the ocean?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the combined term for water transpired by plants and evaporated from soil?Read the answer and worked solution →Which process is the movement of water through the atmosphere?Read the answer and worked solution →What is very old groundwater, which can stay below ground over 10,000 years, called?Read the answer and worked solution →After evaporating, about how long does water stay in the atmosphere before falling?Read the answer and worked solution →In hydrology, what does the residence time of a reservoir measure?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is the evaporation phase called a purification process?Read the answer and worked solution →Through ocean circulation, the water cycle helps move heat from where to where?Read the answer and worked solution →At the local level, what does deforestation do?Read the answer and worked solution →How do impervious surfaces in cities affect surface runoff?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is groundwater depletion an ongoing concern?Read the answer and worked solution →What is global warming doing to the water cycle?Read the answer and worked solution →Which process carries almost all eroded sediment and phosphorus from land to waterbodies?Read the answer and worked solution →Where does the salinity of the oceans come from?Read the answer and worked solution →Cultural eutrophication of lakes is mainly due to excess of which nutrient?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is credited as the first published thinker to say rainfall alone could sustain rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →Up to the Renaissance, what was wrongly believed to feed rivers mainly?Read the answer and worked solution →In which book did Aristotle link the sun to the Earth's water cycle?Read the answer and worked solution →Atmospheric rivers carrying vapour over long distances illustrate which process?Read the answer and worked solution →About how much water falls as precipitation worldwide each year?Read the answer and worked solution →Surface ocean currents are generally driven mainly by what?Read the answer and worked solution →What mainly drives deep-water currents?Read the answer and worked solution →The Gulf Stream is an example of which type of ocean flow?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which energy source mainly powers the water cycle?

  1. Pull of the Moon
  2. Winds of the tropics
  3. Heat of the Earth's core
  4. Heat from the Sun
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Correct answer: D. Heat from the Sun

1. The Sun heats water in oceans, lakes and rivers. 2. This heat drives evaporation, which starts the cycle. 3. Wind, the core and the Moon do not power the cycle itself. _Source: Wikipedia, Water cycle, Overall process_

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Which process turns water vapour into droplets that form clouds and fog?

  1. Evaporation
  2. Transpiration
  3. Sublimation
  4. Condensation
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Correct answer: D. Condensation

1. Condensation changes water vapour into liquid droplets. 2. These droplets gather as clouds and fog. 3. Evaporation and transpiration add vapour instead of removing it. _Source: Wikipedia, Water cycle, Overall process_

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What do we call the release of water vapour from plants into the air?

  1. Advection
  2. Precipitation
  3. Percolation
  4. Transpiration
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Correct answer: D. Transpiration

1. Plants lose water vapour through their leaves. 2. This release is called transpiration. 3. Precipitation is falling water, percolation is downward seepage and advection is movement in air. _Source: Wikipedia, Water cycle, Overall process_

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