FILL EACH GAP IN THE PASSAGE WITH ONE SUITABLE WORD (L0PS)

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VII: Fill each gap in the passage with ONE suitable word (l0ps).

Maybe you recycle cans, glass, and paper. Did you know that nature recycles, too? One of the

things nature (1) — is water. Water goes from oceans, lakes, and rivers into the air. Water falls

from the air as (2) — or snow. Rain and snow eventually find their way back to the ocean.

Nature’s recycling program for water is (3) — the water cycle.

The water cycle has four stages storage, evaporation, precipitation, and runoff. Water on Earth

gets stored (4) — oceans, lakes, rivers, ice, and even underground. Water goes from storage into

the atmosphere by a process called evaporation. When water evaporates, it changes from a liquid

(5) — a gas, called water vapor. Water vapor goes up into (6) — atmosphere. Water returns to the

Earth as precipitation in rain or snow by changing into drops of water (7) the air gets cold

enough. Clouds are collections (8) water droplets. Most precipitation falls into the oceans and

goes right back into storage.

Water that falls on land always flows from (9) places to lower ones. This flow is called runoff.

Water from land flows into stream. Streams join together to make (10) ____ and eventually the

water flows into storage in the ocean. Then the water cycle starts all over again.

VII : Fill each gap in the passage with ONE suitable word (l0points).