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The water cycle – practice for Years 4–5

Sample questions on The water cycle with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
Science
Year
Years 4–5
Curriculum area
Variety of nature

Question types: Put in order

Rule: The water cycle

The Sun warms water, it evaporates and the water vapour rises.

High up the vapour cools and turns into droplets: clouds form. Rain or snow falls from them.

The water runs into rivers and seas or soaks into the ground, and the cycle starts again.

Example: sea → evaporation → cloud → rain → river → sea

Watch out: A cloud is not water vapour: it is tiny droplets of water or ice crystals.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    Put in order the way water flows from its source.

    • A) river mouth
    • B) spring
    • C) river
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. spring
    2. river
    3. river mouth

    How it works: 1. spring 2. river 3. river mouth

  2. Question 2 Normal

    Put in order the way water flows from its source.

    • A) spring
    • B) river mouth
    • C) stream
    • D) river
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. spring
    2. stream
    3. river
    4. river mouth

    How it works: 1. spring 2. stream 3. river 4. river mouth

  3. Question 3 Hard

    Put in order the way water flows from its source.

    • A) sea
    • B) spring
    • C) stream
    • D) river
    • E) river mouth
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. spring
    2. stream
    3. river
    4. river mouth
    5. sea

    How it works: 1. spring 2. stream 3. river 4. river mouth 5. sea

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