Water Distribution
Where most of earth's water is found
What is in the oceans and seas?
What is an organism that is sensitive to pollution and tells us about the water quality in a body of water called?
What is a Bioindicator?
True or false: Clear water is always clean and drinkable
What is false?
The process of water going from a gas to a liquid
What is condensation?
When water sticks to other water molecules?
What is cohesion?
Why can't we use ocean water for farming, cooking, drinking, etc?
It is too salty. It is expensive to distill water.
If I want to know how CLEAR the water is, what water quality indicator do I look at?
What is Turbidity?
True or false: Neutral water has a pH level of 7
What is true?
What can cause an increase in temperature in a body of water?
What is pollution, climate, acid rain?
When water molecules stick to other thing?
What is Adhesion?
Where the largest amount of freshwater is found on earth.
What are icecaps and glaciers?
When Temperature goes up, Dissolved Oxygen goes...?
What is down?
Acid rain could cause an increase OR decrease change in pH?
What is lower pH?
Low turbidity means that the water is cloudy or clear?
What is clear?
When cohesion creates a "skin" on the top of a body of water?
What is surface tension?
Where less than 1% of freshwater is found on earth
What are rivers, lakes, ponds, streams and groundwater?
This is freshwater humans can safely drink
What is potable water?
A natural underground storage area for freshwater
What is an aquifer?
Temperature increasing causes dissolved oxygen to decrease because of what...?
What is... the sunlight is blocked from the plants and photosynthesis cannot occur?
When water "crawls" up against gravity?
What is Capillary Action?
Where do we get most of the water that we use for drinking water?
What is a groundwater, lakes, rivers?
What things can lead to a change in pH?
What is pollution, more precipitation, new animal life...
Name two macroinvertebrates that would be good bioindicators?
What is mayfly, caddisfly, water bug, stonefly, alderfly, dragonfly, bass fish?
What is Basic/ Alkaline?
The property that explains why sand is hotter than the ocean at the beach?
What is specific heat?