Water, water, everywhere
Water Cycle
Water properties
Science Grab Bag
Hydrosphere Vocab
100
The percent of the Earth's water that is salt water
97%
100
Source of energy that drives the water cycle
the sun
100

When water turns from solid to liquid

melting

100

Rainfall on hillsides with bare vegetation can cause this.

erosion or landslides

100
Water located below Earth's surface
groundwater
200
The percent of the Earth that is covered with water
71%
200
Several forms of liquid water or ice that falls from clouds
precipitation
200
When water turns from liquid to solid

freezing

200

CLEVR is an acronym for:

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning

200
A body of rock that stores water
aquifers
300
The ocean that is the largest and the deepest
pacific ocean
300

When water evaporates, these are left behind.

solutes, minerals, salts

300

When water turns from liquid  to gas

boiling or evaporation

300

The element with the smallest atoms.

 hydrogen

300

This term describes how much salt is dissolved in water.

salinity

400
Most of the Earth's fresh water is found here
Polar Ice Caps and Glaciers
400

This term describes the amount of water vapor in the air.

humidity

400

When water turns from gas to liquid

condensation

400

When found in the ocean or rivers, runoff from homes, pesticides, oil, fertilizer, and plastic are all examples of this

pollution

400

The gravity of the moon causes these in the ocean

tides

500

This is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.

Baikal

500
Water evaporating through leaves of plants
transpiration
500

Because of it's opposite charges at either end, water is this type of molecule.

polar

500

A food making process in which organisms use sunlight and water to produce sugar and oxygen

photosynthesis

500

the study of weather

meteorology

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