Vocabulary
something necessary to support life
habitable
Approx. 90% of Venus' surface is covered in this type of material
What is volcanic material/basalt?
Evaporation is the process where a liquid turns into this state of matter.
What is a gas (or vapor)
This term describes a molecule that has an unequal distribution of charges, like a water molecule where oxygen is slightly negative and hydrogen is slightly positive.
What is a polar molecule?
Unlike solids, liquids have a definite volume but do not have this property
What is a definite shape?
a long narrow groove that forms where?
what is channel
These smooth features cover roughly 65% of the planet's surface
What are rolling plains?
Unlike boiling, which happens throughout the liquid, evaporation only occurs at this specific part.
What is the surface?
This special type of intermolecular attraction bonds one water molecule to another, keeping water liquid at room temperature.
What is a hydrogen bond?
This term measures a liquid's resistance to flowing. Molasses has a high one, while water has a low one.
What is viscosity?
serves to either support or counter
what is Evidence
This term refers to the raised domes with cracks spreading in all directions, often caused by rising magma.
What are novae?
This is the specific temperature at which a liquid rapidly changes to a gas throughout the entire fluid.
What is the boiling point?
Water is often referred to as this type of substance because it can dissolve more solutes than any other liquid.
What is a universal solvent?
This liquid element is famously the only metal that remains a liquid at standard room temperature and pressure.
what is mercury?
to supply with light,brighten, or make a subject clear and easy to understand
Illuminate
Large highland areas on Venus, similar in some ways to Earth's continents, are often called this, like the one named after the Greek goddess of love.
What is Aphrodite Terra?
Evaporation is the exact opposite of this moisture-producing process.
What is condensation?
When you overfill a glass and water mounds up over the rim without spilling, it is due to this attractive force between water molecules.
What is cohesion?
This is the temperature at which a liquid turns into a solid.
What is the freezing point?
A series of events or events of series
Geologic process
Venus is covered in thousands of volcanoes but, strangely, lacks these large, deep, linear depressions found on Earth and Mars caused by plate tectonics.
What are plate boundary trenches?
This term describes a liquid's tendency to evaporate quickly at normal temperatures, like alcohol or gasoline.
What is volatile?
Ice floats because it is less dense than liquid water, a result of these forming and holding water molecules further apart in a rigid structure.
What are crystalline structures (or hydrogen-bonded lattices)?
Water is highly unusual because, unlike most liquids, its solid form is less dense than its liquid form. What is this solid form commonly called?
What is ice?