Vocab
How clear the water is
What is turbidity?
Gary notices that liquid droplets are forming on the glass. What phase change is this?
What is condensation?
Atoms or molecules of water stick together
What is cohesion?
What is the most common water pollutant?
What is sediment?
The hydrosphere has all the _____ on Earth.
What is water?
A place where saltwater meets freshwater
What is an estuary?
What is evaporation?
Molecules or atoms of 2 different substances stick together
What is adhesion?
Drect pollution from factories or an identifiable source
What is point source pollution?
Most of the earths water is found in the _______.
What are oceans?
Organisms that indicate the health of a water ecosystem.
What is a bioindicator?
Name any 3 properties of water other than cohesion and adhesion
What are high heat capacity, universal solvent, polarity, low density, and boiling/freezing points?
Indirect pollution from animals or widspread runoff
What is Non-Point pollution?
A _____ _____ is the land area that drains into a river.
What is a river basin?
A body of rock that can contain water
What is an aquifer?
What is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit? (Bonus 100 points if you guess what the freezing point of gallium is.)*
*10 degrees off counts
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit?
*What is 86 degrees Fahrenheit?
What does PH stand for?
What is Percent Hydrogen?
Sally noticed the water was very dark and dirty, and there was no life inside. Is it High or Low Turbidity?
What is High Turbidity
__________ ______ is the amount of oxgen in the water.
What is dissolved oxygen?
Total amount of water on Earth
When a solid changes directly to a gas without going to a liquid.
What is sublimation?
What is the PH level of salt water?
What is 8?
Excess nutrients in a lake or other body of water that cause a dense growth of plant life
What is Eutrophication?
_________ of the hydrosphere mean taing actions to protect and coserce water health and resources for future generations.
What is Stewardship?