MCPSS 3rd Grade ACAP 3.24

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What starts the water cycle according to the passage?

Rain falling from the clouds

Water collecting in lakes and rivers

Formation of clouds in the sky

Evaporation of water into vapor

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What process occurs after water vapor cools and forms droplets?

Precipitation falling back to Earth

Collection of water in rivers

Condensation forms clouds

Evaporation turning liquid to vapor

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What happens to heavy droplets in the clouds?

They become groundwater underground

They evaporate back into the air

They stay in clouds forever

They fall to Earth as precipitation

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What is precipitation in the water cycle?

Rain, snow, or hail falling to Earth

Vapor rising into the atmosphere

Water flowing in rivers

Water collecting in lakes

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What does the water cycle help support?

All living things on Earth

Only animals and humans

Only plants and trees

Cloud formation alone

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Sequence of Events
List the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

RI.3.9

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Compare and Contrast
How is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

RI.3.9

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Sequence of Events
List the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

Sequence of Events

Compare and Contrast
How is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

Compare and Contrast

What starts the water cycle according to the passage?

What process occurs after water vapor cools and forms droplets?

What happens to heavy droplets in the clouds?

What is precipitation in the water cycle?

What does the water cycle help support?

Sequence of Events
List the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

Sequence of Events

Compare and Contrast
How is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

Compare and Contrast

Cause and Effect
What causes precipitation to occur?

Cause and Effect

What starts the water cycle according to the passage?

What process occurs after water vapor cools and forms droplets?

What happens to heavy droplets in the clouds?

What is precipitation in the water cycle?

What does the water cycle help support?

Cause and Effect
What causes precipitation to occur?

Cause and Effect

MCPSS 3rd Grade ACAP 3.24

Sequence of EventsList the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

Sequence of Events

Compare and ContrastHow is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

Compare and Contrast

What starts the water cycle according to the passage?

What process occurs after water vapor cools and forms droplets?

What happens to heavy droplets in the clouds?

What is precipitation in the water cycle?

What does the water cycle help support?

Sequence of EventsList the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

Sequence of Events

Compare and ContrastHow is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

Compare and Contrast

Cause and EffectWhat causes precipitation to occur?

Cause and Effect

What starts the water cycle according to the passage?

What process occurs after water vapor cools and forms droplets?

What happens to heavy droplets in the clouds?

What is precipitation in the water cycle?

What does the water cycle help support?

Cause and EffectWhat causes precipitation to occur?

Cause and Effect

Sequence of Events
List the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

Compare and Contrast
How is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

Sequence of Events
List the steps of the water cycle in the order they occur.

Compare and Contrast
How is evaporation different from condensation? Write one sentence for each.

Cause and Effect
What causes precipitation to occur?

Cause and Effect
What causes precipitation to occur?