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General science · Difficulty 3

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Choose your answer before opening the explanation. This original practice item is for preparation and does not reproduce an official test question.

Question

Which situation is the best example of evaporation?

  1. Lemon juice turns blue litmus paper red.
  2. A puddle becomes smaller on a warm dry day.
  3. A dropped tool accelerates toward the ground.
  4. After vaccination, certain proteins help recognize a pathogen.
Reveal answer and explanation

A puddle becomes smaller on a warm dry day.

evaporation is the change of a liquid into a gas at its surface. A puddle becomes smaller on a warm dry day.