Water Distribution and Percentages
Properties of Water
Water Vocab
River Basins
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100
The percentage of the hydrosphere that is salt water
What is 97%?
100
waters chemical formula is _________________.
What is H2O?
100

A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid

What is salinity?

100
The land area that water follow across or under on its way to a particular river.
What is a river basin?
100

The largest ocean

What is the Pacific?

200
The percentage of the earth that is covered with water
What is 71%?
200
The sticking together of molecules of the same substance
What is cohesion?
200

a measure of how acidic or basic a substance is

What is pH?

200
Hillsborough lies in the ___ Watershed and the ___ River Basin.
What is Eno and Neuse?
200

pollution that comes from a specific site

What is point source pollution?

300
This is where most of the earth's freshwater is stored.
What is ice?
300
Tightness across the surface of water.
What is surface tension?
300

All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97% of which is in oceans

What is hydrosphere?

300
If you live in ALAMANCE, ORANGE, DURHAM, WAKE, CHATHAM counties, you most likely live in one of two river basins:_____________________or the_________________________.
What is the Neuse River basin and Cape Fear River basin?
300

water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin

What is nonpoint source pollution?

400
Most groundwater is stored in __________.
What is aquifers?
400
The ability to climb up the inside of a tube or cling to paper/cloth.
What is capillary action?
400

The change of state from a gas to a liquid

What is condensation?

400

The water from river basins in NC flow to these locations: 

Mississippi River, Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina

400

Streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean are called

What are surface currents?

500
The water found in cracks and pores in the rocks below the earths surface
What is groundwater?
500
The ability to dissolve many (but not all) substances.
What is "universal" solvency?
500

water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

What is groundwater?

500
North Carolina is divided into __ major river basins.
What is 17?
500

Ocean currents are important in transporting these five things

What are  heat, water, nutrients, pollutants, and organisms ?

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