Properties of Water
Evidence
Consequences
Solutions
Cause
100
This property of water is caused by the unequal sharing of electrons between the oxygen and the two hydrogens, which leaves the oxygen atom with a positive charge and the two hydrogens with a negative charge.
What is polarity?
100
The relationship shown in this graph.
As carbon dioxide increases global average temperature also increases.
100
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this causes more weather related deaths each year in the United States than hurricanes, floods, or tornadoes.
What is extreme heat?
100
This type of energy comes from sources like the sun and wind and does not run out.
What is renewable energy?
100
This greenhouse gas is the most commonly produced by human activities and is released when we drive cars or use electricity.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
This property of water explains why small insects can "walk" on the surface of the water.
What is surface tension (and cohesion)?
200
Ice sheets are melting at a more rapid pace here.
What is Greenland?
200
Why hurricanes today drop about 10–15% more rainfall than similar storms in the past. (your answer needs to be more specific than climate change)
What is warmer ocean waters?
200
Driving this type of vehicle instead of a gas-powered car helps reduce carbon emissions.
What are electric vehicles?
200
When factories and power plants release gases into the air, it increases this effect that traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
The reason why ice floats on water.
Solid water is less dense than liquid water. Due to hydrogen bonding, molecules of water are more spread out in the solid versus the liquid state.
300
What is shown in this image?
The loss of arctic sea ice.
300
Cases of this tick borne disease have roughly doubled in the United States since the 1990s.
What is Lyme Disease?
300
This practice reduces the amount of trash in landfills and helps lower greenhouse gas emissions by reusing materials.
What is recycling?
300
This human activity reduces nature’s ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is deforestation?
400
This property of water is important in the stabilizing of the Earth's climate.
What is water's high specific heat capacity?
400
The reason land temperatures are rising significantly faster than ocean temperatures.
What is the high heat capacity of water?
400
Due to hotter and drier weather incidents of this natural disaster have more than doubled since the 1980s in the western United States.
What are wildfires?
400
Protecting and restoring these large natural areas helps absorb carbon dioxide and support ecosystems.
What are forests and mangroves?
400
This human activity is the main source of Methane, another powerful greenhouse gas.
What is agriculture?
500
This property of water explains why we were able to put so many drops of water and the surface of a penny.
What is cohesion?
500
Besides melting ice sheets, the other cause of sea level rise.
As water warms it expands.
500
This type of natural disaster, associated with heavy rain events have increased by about 20% since 1958.
What is flooding?
500
An account of all the carbon dioxide you generate from things like transportation, food, electricity is called your_____________.
What is your carbon footprint?
500
This is the reason the arctic region is heating up faster than other parts of the planet.
What is loss of arctic sea ice?