Properties of Water
When a substance sticks to another substance
What is Adhesion?
A coastal area where a river meets the ocean. These usually have brackish water.
What is an estuary?
This structure stores water for human use and helps regulate water supply.
What is a reservoir?
The heat of the water.
What is temperature?
When water turns into a gas due to heat.
What is evaporation?
When a substance is attracted to the same substance
What is Cohesion?
A mountain range at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, formed through divergent plates.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
This is a large man-made wall built across a river to hold back water.
What is a dam?
A measure of how clear the water is.
What is turbidity?
State of change that occurs when water vapor turns into liquid water in a cloud.
What is condensation?
The ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces or pores, even against gravity
What is Capillary Action?
The ability for living organisms to produce their own light, usually in deep parts of the ocean.
What is bioluminescence?
These are pipes or ditches that carry water to farms and cities.
What are canals?
A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of the water.
What is pH (percent Hydrogen)?
When any form of water (sleet, hail, water, snow) falls from a cloud.
What is precipitation?
The thin membrane of the surface of water to stick together due to cohesion.
What is surface tension?
Places at the bottom of the ocean, where holes leading to the earth's crust underneath heat up the water around it.
What is hydrothermal vent?
These are walls built near rivers to stop water from flooding the land.
What are levees?
Groundwater contaminants that usually enter the ground through fertilizers, animal wastes, and sewage.
What are nitrates?
After it rains, water may collect and make its way to a river or other bodies of water.
What is runoff?
A name for water because of the fact that it can dissolve more solutes than most liquids.
What is the universal solvent?
The ecological region that is at the bottom of the ocean or lake, including the sediment surface.
What is benthic zone?
This is a tall tower that stores clean water and gives pressure so water can reach houses.
Excessive nutrients in the water, usually nitrates or phosphates that leads to an excessive increase in plant life, and a very large decrease in animal life.
What is eutrophication?
After it rains, water may collect and seep under the ground.
What is infiltration?