Vocabulary
The concentration of salts present in water.
What is Salinity?
The part of the Earth that is made of water
What is the Hydrosphere?
A body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
Why is water a universal solvent?
What is the ability to dissolve many subtances?
How is fresh water distributed?
What is precipitation?
Artificial deposits of water?
What is a Reservoir?
At what temperatures does water freeze and evaporate?
What is 0 degrees Celcius (freeze) and 100 degrees Celcius (evaporate)?
An area where shallow groundwater appears on the surface. Home to a large variety of plants and animals.
What are Wetlands?
The three properties of pure liquid water?
What is colourless, odourless and tasteless ?
Name the three main types of fresh water?
What are glaciers, groundwater, and surface water?
Visible water vapor.
What are Clouds?
What percentage of the hydrosphere is fresh water?
What is 2.5%?
Surface water that flows along a fixed course during periods of high rainfall or snow melt. Otherwise empty.
What is a Torrent?
The property of water that requires a lot of energy to raise its temperature 1 degree celcius.
What is High heat capacity?
Why can water exist in all three states on Earth?
What is the natural greenhouse effect?
The process of water changing from a solid into a gas
What is sublimination?
The ratio of salt to water that constitutes salt water.
What is 35 grams of salt/1 liter of water?
Name the two types of Glaciers.
What are Ice Sheets and Valley Glaciers?
The process of ice changing to water is called?
What is fusion?
Why does the Mediterranean Sea have a high salinity?
What is high evaporation and low precipation?
The action of water soaking into the ground to create groundwater.
What is Infiltration?
How did the oceans and seas become salty?
What is Rivers carried dissolved salts from continental rocks to the oceans and seas?
What are underground deposits of groundwater called?
What are Aquifers
What is incompressibility?
What is the property allowing water to withstand high pressures and not be compressed?
What is Capillarity?
What is the ability for water to rise against gravity inside narrow diameter tubes?