Properties of water
This property of water is what makes it stick to other substances.
What is adhesion?
This is how liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This is water that is crammed into the spaces in soil.
What is groundwater?
Water does this when it freezes.
What is expands?
This is the use of water to grow crops.
What is irrigation?
This property of water is what makes it stick to itself.
What is cohesion?
This comes in the form of rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
What is precipitation?
This occurs when an aquifer overflows onto the surface.
What is a spring?
What is porosity?
This is where most irrigation water comes from in Nebraska.
What is the Ogallala aquifer?
This bond forms between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms of adjacent water molecules.
What is a hydrogen bond?
This is the process by which water moves into the ground from the surface.
This is the boundary between ground that is saturated and unsaturated.
What is the water table?
This was the major climatic cause of the 1930's dustbowl.
What is drought?
This is a surface irrigation method that uses water in small, evenly spaced channels.
What is furrow?
This property of water is caused by cohesion and allows a paperclip to "float" on its surface.
What is surface tension?
This is how plants move water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
This is the area where water can seep into an aquifer.
What is the recharge zone?
This is the ability of soil and rock to allow water to flow through it.
What is permeability?
This is a type of irrigation that is typically seen from large center pivots.
What is spray?
This property of water uses cohesion and adhesion to move through the small spaces or "pores" of a solid.
What is capillary action?
This type of energy is transferred between the equator and poles through the water cycle.
What is heat?
This is the part of an aquifer that is exposed to the surface.
What is an outcrop?
These are the three ways that soil can filter water.
What are physical, chemical, and biological?
This is the type of well that results from tapping a confined aquifer.