Precipitation and the Water Cycle

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Three rounds: Quick Start, Risk or Reward, and a final wager. Questions have a 20-second answer clock; the final question has 30 seconds. There is no pause.

Use each lifeline once: 50/50 removes two wrong answers; Ask the Hosts removes one. Only one lifeline per question.

Safe earns 100 points without a loss. Bold risks 250 points and needs a 250-point balance. All In doubles or loses your balance and needs more than 250 points. The final wager uses 50-point steps.

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About 1 minute with sound off at a quick answering pace. Allow longer with narration. About this estimate

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Earth’s water is stored in ice and snow, lakes and rivers, the atmosphere and the oceans. How much do you know about how water cycles around our planet and the crucial role it plays in our climate?

Sample questions


  1. What percentage of global precipitation falls on the land compared to the oceans?
  2. What is the shape of a large raindrop as it falls through the air?
  3. Which of the following processes within the water cycle is responsible for changing water from a liquid to a gas?

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