Water Properties
Attraction among molecules that are alike.
What is cohesion?
A thin layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
All the water on and below Earth’s surface and in the atmosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
The energy source driving or powering the water cycle.
What is the sun?
This line of latitude divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Attraction among molecules that are unalike.
What is adhesion?
Water in its gaseous form.
What is water vapor?
All organisms need this to survive (without it they would die within a few days)
What is water?
Liquid water changes to a gas over a large body of water like the ocean.
What is evaporation?
These lines run east to west but measure distance north or south of the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
Term used for water being able to dissolve many substances into it.
What is "universal solvent?"
The atmospheric layer closest to the Earth’s surface.
What is the troposphere?
Most of the Earth’s surface is covered with this percentage of water.
What is 70%?
Rain, sleet, hail, snow are forms of this.
What is precipitation?
This line of longitude divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the solid form of water. It is also less dense than water.
What is ice?
Ozone layer located in this atmospheric level.
What is the stratosphere?
Percentage of Earth’s total water that is salt water.
What is 97%?
Water flowing over the Earth’s surface from rain and melting snow or ice.
What is runoff?
These lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole and measure distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
A condition in which opposite ends of a molecule have slightly opposite charges but the overall molecule is neutral.
What is polarity?
Weather occurs in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
The amount of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material by 1 degree Celsius.
What is specific heat?
The process where water vapor rises and condenses into clouds.
What is condensation?
This ocean is found at the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?