VOCAB!!!!!!!!!!
Water attracted to other water molecules.
What is adhesion?
When a water strider walks on water due to this property of water.
What is surface tension?
Forms of water such as: snow,sleet,rain,&hail that fall from clouds
What is precipitation?
The land area that supplies water into a river system.
What is a watershed?
When the volume of water in a river increases so much that it overflows its channel.
What is a flood?
The amount of mass in a given space.
What is density?
When you stick a straw into your drink and it goes up into the straw is due to this property of water.
What is capillary action?
When a liquid becomes a gas
What is evaporation?
A drainage basins
What is another name for a watershed?
River
Lake
Pond
Ocean
Bay
Gulf
What are some type's of body's of water?
The type of weathering that is physically breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is physical weathering?
When water can dissolve substances such as sugar or salt.
What is a universal solvent?
When a gas becomes a liquid.
What is condensation?
One watershed separated from another by a ridge of land.
What is a divide?
Smaller streams and rivers that feed into a main river.
What is a tributary?
Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended.
What is turbidity?
The continue'as process by which water moves from earths surface to the atmosphere and back passing through the living and nonliving parts of the environment.
What is the water cycle?
When water collects into a puddle or in the ground.
What is collection?
The Chesapeake Bay watershed.
What is the USA's largest watershed?
A river and all its tributary's together.
What makes up a river system?
An artificial reservoir or tank for storing water usually underground.
What is cistern?
Causes the minerals in rocks to be changed over time.
What is chemical weathering?
When a plant lets out the water that has been sucked up from its roots(like a flower sweating).
What is transpiration?
James River Watershed
What is Virginia's largest watershed?
When water collects in hallows and low-lying areas of land.
How do ponds and lakes form?