Aquatic Science Basics
The study of all water environments and the plants, animals, and organisms that live in them.
What is Aquatic Science
When water is attracted to other substances
Adhesion
Types of compounds that dissolve easily in water
What are polar and ionic
Allows a water strider to be able to skate along the top of a pond.
What is surface tension?
The number one leading cause of water pollution
What are agricultural activities
The percentage of the earth that is covered in water
71%
Where do infectious diseases come from in polluted waters
Human and animal waste
Attractions between water molecules
What are hydrogen bonds
The property of water that allows ice to freeze at the top of a pond and protects the water life underneath.
What is ice is less dense than water
A change in water quality that can harm organisms or make water unfit for human use, contamination of chemicals, excessive heat
What is water pollution
The total amount of water on a planet.
what is the Hydrosphere
The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results.
What is the conclusion
Water’s ability to be attracted to other water molecules.
What is cohesion
When a solute dissolves into a solvent
What is a solution
Located at specific places, easy to identify, monitor, and regulate, they are found at underground mines and factories
what are point sources of pollution
The average atmospheric conditions over time.
What is climate
The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).
What is data
The end of a water molecule that has a slightly positive charge
What is the hydrogen end
The property of water that helps to moderate earth's temperature
What is Specific heat capacity
broad, diffuse areas, difficult to identify, expensive to clean up, hard to control, they usually come from run off from many different things such as parking lots, rivers, surface water, sediment
What are non-point Sources of Pollution
These two elements make up water
Hydrogen and Oxygen
The substance that does the dissolving in a solution.
What is a solvent
A molecule in which opposite ends have opposite electric charges
What is a polar molecule
Allows water to move from the roots to the leaves of plants.
What is capillary action that pulls water molecules up
The second cause of water pollution
What are industrial sources