Chapter 1 OSSLT Preparation Quiz

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Use this quiz to practice for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. Go to pages 24–25, read “The Water Cycle” and look at Figure 1.22 before completing the quiz.

This activity contains 8 questions.

A cycle has:

an endno beginning or enda beginning and an enda beginning

Clouds occur when water:

evaporatesfalls to the groundseeps through soilvapour cools

Rain that falls to the ground usually becomes:

vapourseepagerun-offaquifers

The order of cause and effect in the water cycle is clearly shown in Figure 1.22 by the use of:

textcoloursarrowspictures

The process of plants releasing water into the atmosphere is known as:

condensationevaporationprecipitationtranspiration

Rain, hail, snow, and sleet are all examples of:

transpirationevaporationprecipitationcondensation

In the second paragraph, one sentence reads, "From there, it may fall to Earth as rain, hail, snow, or sleet." Commas are used in this sentence to indicate a:

pausecombination of two main ideassample of dialogue will be introducedlist

According to Figure 1.22, plant roots get water from:

ground waterlakesaquifersoceans

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