This document contains multiple choice questions and answers about the water cycle. It covers key concepts like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, groundwater, surface water, and how water moves through the hydrological cycle. The water cycle is described as the way nature cleans and circulates water in a never-ending movement from sea, sky, and land.

1. Exam Revision Multiple Choice –
Advanced Water Cycle Answers

2. Which of these are not Transpiration?
• D) Water that recedes from the headlands

3. Which of these do not relate to the
water table?
• C) The way that water will spread across an
area

4. Condensation is…
• D) The change of the physical state of matter
from gaseous phase into liquid phase

5. Run off…
• C) Is water that hits the ground but does not
stay there

6. Groundwater is…
• D) Water that hits the ground and is absorbed

7. A bore is…
• A) A well or hole used to get water

8. Surface water is….
• B) Water that lands on water, on the surface
of water

9. What does precipitation come down
as?
• C) Snow and rain

10. What is the water cycle?
• D) The way that nature cleans and circulates
water

11. Artesian Water is….
• D) Water held under ground by non-porous
rocks at high pressure

12. In the water cycle what comes first?
• C) Evaporation

13. When water hits the ground it either
becomes…
• D) Groundwater, surface water or run-off

14. Which of these are not precipitation?
• B) A drought day, where rainfall is very
minimal

15. How many sequences are there in the
hydrological cycle?
D) 6

16. A never ending movement of water
from sea sky to land is called?
• C) Water cycle

17. What does the water molecules form
into?
• A) Clouds

18. After precipitation where does the
water go?
• D) All of the above

19. Water droplets become bigger and
form into rain or snow, what is this
• A) Precipitation

20. Evaporation is….
• C) Water rising as vapour

21. The role of plants in the hydrological
cycle is…
• B) Reasonably important, they purify water
and help to regulate the cycle

22. Which of these have the most negative
affect on the water cycle?
• C) Pollution