Properties
This property of water allows a paperclip to float on the surface of water.
What is surface tension?
Water is said to have a high specific heat because of this.
What is it takes longer to heat up than other substances?
What describes sediments being moved by wind or water?
What is erosion?
When sediments stop moving and are dropped to a new location
What happens to water in our atmosphere when liquid turns into a gas?
What is evaporation?
This property of water demonstrates the attraction of one water molecule to another.
What is cohesion?
This is the property of water that allows water molecules to stick to molecules of other substances.
What is adhesion?
What is the breaking apart of rocks by a mechanical force?
Provide one example of a land that forms as a result of eroded sediment?
What are "canyons, caves, volcanoes, beaches, deltas, deserts, etc."
Water is called this because it can easily dissolve many substances.
What is universal solvent?
Frost wedging is when water gets into the cracks of rocks, freezes, and causes the rock to bust into smaller pieces. Is this an example of weathering or erosion?
What is weathering?
What is "dropping, deposited, forming"
Water molecules tend to "stick" together because of positively and negatively charged "ends" of the molecule. So, we say it is what kind of molecule?
What is a polar molecule?
What is the chemical formula of water and how many atoms of each element does it have?
H2O
Hydrogen: 2 atoms
Oxygen: 1 atom
Large sediments moving along the bottom of the river as it flows would be an example of...
What is "erosion"?
A landform made by deposition at the beach.
What is a sand dune?
What percent of all of the water on Earth is fresh water?
What is "3%"?
This property describes tightness across the surface of water, caused by the polar molecules pulling on one another.
What is surface tension?
Why does ice float on the top instead of sinking to the bottom of the glass?
What is "because ice is less dense than liquid water?"
A cave is formed when a limestone rock gets rained on for many years. The rain is slightly acidic, which slowly dissolves the rock away over time. Is this an example of weathering or erosion?
What is weathering?
Describe how sand gets moved to the ocean floor?
What is "the moving water erodes the sediment"
What percent of fresh water is available for us to use on Earth?
What is less than 1%?