Vocab
Properties of Water
Pollution
Water cycle
100
Types of Precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail?
100
Structure of water
What are two hydrogen atoms bonded to one oxygen?
100
major source of pollution
What is toxic waste?
100
liquid to gas change
What is evaporation?
200
Describe Salinity
What is a measure of the amount of salt in a body of water?
200
Capillary Actio
What is the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, external forces like gravity?
200
Why is oil harmful to wild life?
What is harm to ecosystems?
200
gas into a liquid change
What is condensation?
300
Describe Permeability
What is measure of how much water can flow through a substance?
300
Surface Tensions
What is could be defined as the property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force, due to the cohesive nature of the water molecules?
300
identifiable source of pollution
What is Point source Pollution?
300
liquid to solid change
What is freezing?
400
Describe Polarity
What is having a positive and negative end (pole) (i.e. Water is a polar molecule because it has a negatively charged side- the oxygen atom- and a positively charged side- the two hydrogen atoms.)?
400
What is Buoyancy?
400
pollution from multiple sources
Nonpoint Source Pollution
400
solid to gas change
What is sublimation?
500
Describe Aquifer
What is a body of rock that can contain water or allow water to flow through it
500
Difference of specific heat of water and sand
What is Sand has a low specific heat but water has a very high specific heat?
500
What are ways to stop pollution?
What is recycling, reusing, and reducing?
500
gas to solid change
What is deposition