Grade 6 Science quiz: The water cycle

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Topic: The water cycle: how the sun and gravity move water through Earth's systems (MS-ESS2-4). A good grade 6 quiz on this asks students to:

• Describe evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration as changes of state or movements of water
• Explain that energy from the sun drives evaporation and that gravity pulls water down as precipitation and downhill flow
• Trace more than one path water can take through oceans, air, ice, land and living things
• Use a model to show where water is stored and how it moves between reservoirs

Misconceptions worth a question

• Thinking the water cycle is one fixed loop instead of many possible paths
• Believing clouds are water vapor rather than tiny liquid drops or ice crystals
• Forgetting groundwater, glaciers and plants as parts of the cycle

Teacher tip: MS-ESS2-4 does not ask for latent heat calculations, so tell the AI to keep it qualitative and to include at least one question that asks students to trace a path that skips the ocean.

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