Science Test
Name:______Date:______
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer and write it on the line.
____ 1.What is the most important use of water in your daily life?
a. washing cars
b. irrigating the food crops that you eat
c. transporting products you use each day
d. moving nutrients through your body
____ 2.Which of these would be used to treat the wastewater in a large city?
a. a sewer system
b. a septic system
c. a hydroelectric dam
d. a desalination plant
____ 3.What is a drought?
a. a long period of higher than normal rainfall
b. a long period of lower than normal rainfall
c. a long period of lower than normal temperature
d. a long period of higher than normal temperature
____ 4.A decrease in temperature may cause water to change from a
a. solid to a liquid
b. liquid to a solid
c. solid to a gas
d. liquid to a gas
____ 5.Which water cycle process is rain?
a. precipitation
b. evaporation
c. condensation
d. transpiration
____ 6.Bodies of surface water are called
a. aquifers and impermeable rocks
b. ponds and impermeable rocks
c. lakes and ponds
d. aquifers and streams
____ 7.Most of Earth’s fresh water is found in
a. glaciers and icebergs
b. rivers and streams
c. ponds and lakes
d. aquifers and springs
____ 8. Precipitation that has become part of an aquifer is an example of
a. lake water
b. salt water
c. artesian water
d. groundwater
____ 9.Which of these correctly describes the water on Earth?
a. about 3% fresh water and 97% salt water
b. about 24% fresh water and 76% salt water
c. about 76% fresh water and 24% salt water
d. about 97% fresh water and 3% salt water
____ 10.Which water cycle process forms clouds?
a. evaporation
b. condensation
c. precipitation
d. transpiration
Water Planet
____ 11.Water vapor accumulates around dust particles in clouds and becomes liquid. This process is called
a. eutrophication
b. evaporation
c. condensation
d. turnover
____ 12.When surface water from precipitation moves it goes first to
a. ocean
b. streams
c. lakes
d. rivers
____ 13.Water that collects and moves beneath Earth’s surface is called
a. an aquifer
b. groundwater
c. surface water
d. a drainage basin
____ 14.Groundwater that flows onto Earth’s surface because the land in this location is
belowthe water table is called
a. an aquifer
b. a spring
c. a glacier
d. a well
____ 15What are three forms of water on Earth?
a. groundwater, lakes, and clouds
b. liquid water, frozen water, and water vapor
c. gas, steam, and vapor
d. groundwater, oceans, and ice
____ 16. The process by which liquid water turns to water vapor is called
a. precipitation
b. condensation
c. transpiration
d. evaporation