The Water Planet
This nickname was given to Earth.
What is The Water Planet?
p. 527
Water has this kind of density.
What is an unusual density?
p. 540
The chemical, biological, and physical status of a body of water.
What is water quality?
p. 546
What is point-source pollution?
p. 547
Water changes into this during evaporation.
What is turning into water vapor?
p. 532
This process must take place for water to become a gas.
What is evaporation?
p. 531
Water is made up of this
What is H20?
p. 537
Pollution that cannot be traced to its origin.
What is nonpoint-source pollution?
p. 547
Water is called this kind of solvent.
What is the universal solvent?
p. 538
Water is mostly absorbed by this.
What are plants?
p. 533
Water can switch between all three of these properties.
What are solids, gas and liquid?
p. 530
The attraction of molecules that are alike.
What is cohesion?
p. 539
The collection of data from a distance.
What is remote sensing?
P.550
Excess water is called this.
What is runoff?
p. 533
This is rain.
What is precipitation?
p. 533
The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of material by 1oC.
What is specific heat?
p. 529
The attraction of molecules that are not alike.
What is adhesion?
p.539
The measure of cloudiness in water.
What is turbidity?
P. 549
The process of a gas changing to a liquid.
What is condensation?
p. 531
These two main factors drive the water cycle.
What is the sun and gravity?
p. 532
The evaporation of water from plants,
What is transpiration?
p. 533
A condition in which opposite ends of a molecule have a slightly opposite charges.
What is polarity?
p. 538
A nitrogen based compound often used in fertilizers.
What is a nitrate?
P. 549
Water has to do this to freeze.
What is losing energy?
p. 531
This is called a storage area of the water cycle.
What is a reservoir?
p. 533