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Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
1
Directions Read the text and then answer
the questions.
SCORE

1._
Plants and animals need water to survive. In some
places, there is a lot of rain. In other places, the climate is
very dry. A drought (drout) is a long period of dry weather
that can be harmful to people. If plants cannot grow, then 2._
food is not made. Droughts can last for months or years.

3._
1. Which statement about 3. What is the root word
water is true? in harmful?

A Plants and animals A ful 4._

need water.
B armful
B People need less water
C arm
than plants. ____ / 4

C Too much water can

D harm Total

cause a drought.
D Water is not necessary 4. Which word means
for plants to grow. almost the same
as climate?

2. What happens if plants A survive

do not grow? B plant
A A drought gets worse. C weather
B The climate will D water
become drier.
C Food is not made.
D The drought will end.

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2 Name:________________________________ Date:___________________

Directions Read the text and then answer

the questions.
SCORE

1._ Water is unique. It has special properties. Water can

be a solid, a liquid, or a gas. No other substance can do
that. Water can be frozen. Freezing it changes water to
2._ ice. Ice can melt. This changes water back to a liquid.
Then the water can be heated. It becomes a gas.

3._
1. What is the main idea? 3. Which words have the
same vowel sound?
A Water becomes a gas
4._ when it is heated. A melt and gas
B Water becomes a liquid B freezing and heated
when it melts.
C unique and liquid
____ / 4 C Water is unique
D changes and water
Total because it can be a
solid, a liquid, or a gas.
D Ice is water as a solid. 4. What do you know
about the meaning of
the word unique by
2. What happens when reading this text?
water freezes?
A It is about heating and
A It changes to ice. freezing something.
B It changes to a gas. B It describes a liquid.
C It becomes unique. C It describes something
related to water.
D It changes to a liquid.
D It describes something
that is one-of-a-kind.

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Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
3
Directions Read the text and then answer
the questions.
SCORE

Large pieces of ice are melting on Earth right now. 1._

They are called ice caps. These are like mountains of
ice. The melted ice causes a lot of problems. It raises the
water levels in our oceans. The higher water levels cause 2._
flooding. Why are the ice caps melting? Because our
planet is getting warmer and warmer each year.

3._
1. What is causing the ice 3. Which suffix could be
caps to melt? added to the root
word melt? 4._
A The ocean levels
are rising. A –less
B The planet is B –er ____ / 4
getting warmer.
C –s Total
C flooding
D –tion
D The mountains of ice
are freezing.
4. Which of the following
could cause flooding?
2. What are ice caps?
A high water levels
A flooding
B a drought
B frozen oceans
C an earthquake
C mountains of ice
D a full moon
D ice cubes

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4–5 Name:________________________________ Date:___________________

The Water Cycle

There is only so much water on Earth. New water is not
being made anywhere. Instead, water is recycled over and
over. The water from a lake comes from the rain in a cloud.
That cloud is made up of water that came from the lake. This
process is called the water cycle.
The water cycle has
four parts. First, water condensation
comes down from the sky.
This is called precipitation
(pri-sip-i-TEY-shuhn). It
might be rain or hail. It
could be snow or sleet,
too. The water comes
from clouds. It falls to precipitation
the ground and collects in
puddles. It also goes into
oceans, lakes, and rivers. evaporation
This is called collection.
Then the sun heats
the water in the oceans,
lakes, and rivers. It turns
collection
the water into a gas.
The vapor (VEY-per), or
steam, goes into the air.
This is called evaporation
(ih-vap-uh-REY-shuhn).
When the water goes into the air, it gets cold. Finally, the
water changes back into clouds. This is called condensation
(kon-den-SEY-shuhn). The clouds gather more and more
water. They get heavy. What happens next? It rains! The
water cycle starts all over again.

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Name:________________________________ Date:___________________
4
Directions Read “The Water Cycle” and then answer
the questions.
SCORE

1. Which is not a 4. What is the correct 1._

real‑world example of order of the
the water cycle? water cycle?

A the summer sun A precipitation, 2._

warming a lake collection, evaporation,
condensation
B snow melting
C drinking a glass
B collection, precipitation, 3._
condensation,
of water evaporation
D clouds about to burst C precipitation, 4._
with rain evaporation,
condensation,
2. Water gathered on the collection 5._
ground and in oceans D condensation,
and lakes is called precipitation,
A evaporation, collection ____ / 5
convection.
Total
B connection.
5. What is the main idea?
C collection.
A Water can fall as rain,
D correction. snow, sleet, or hail.
B Water is recycled over
3. What is the gas form of and over.
water called?
C There is less water on
A vapor Earth now than there
was 100 years ago.
B hail
C D It is not safe to drink
sleet water from a lake
D snow or ocean.
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5 Name:________________________________ Date:___________________

Reread the text “The Water Cycle.”

SCORE
___ / 4 Think about how the water cycle is a process that
follows a certain order.
Write about and describe the water cycle to
someone who is learning about it for the first time.
Explain it in the correct order.

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