Properties of Water
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These atoms are bonded together to form a water molecule.
What is hydrogen (2) and oxygen
100
The temperature in which water evaporates.
What is 100 degrees C?
100
Clouds form because of this stage in the water cycle
What is condensation?
100
This layer of the ground allows water to pass through.
What is the permeable layer?
100
Two watersheds are separated by this.
What is a divide?
200
The tightness across the surface of water when water molecules are pulling on each other in all directions.
What is surface tension.
200
The process by which water is released from the leaves of a plant.
What is transpiration.
200
In order for water vapor to condense back into liquid water this needs to occur.
What is water vapor needs to cool.
200
Granite and Clay are good examples of this.
What is an impermeable layer?
200
This is the percent of water on Earth that is fresh.
What is 3%?
300
The property of water that allows many things to dissolve in it.
What is universal solvent.
300
When water evaporates it turns into this.
What is water vapor?
300
This must be present for water vapor to condense upon to form clouds.
What are dust particles?
300
This is where the saturated zone starts and ends.
What is at the water table and the impermeable layer?
300
20% of all the fresh water in lakes is stored in these.
What are the Great Lakes?
400
This is why water heats up and cools off slowly.
What is high specific heat?
400
Water must do this in order for evaporation to occur.
What is heat up?
400
Water droplets grow heavy enough to fall as these types of precipitation.
What is rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
400
This is any layer underground that holds water.
What is an aquifer?
400
This is the process that happens over time to form the Earth's river valleys, and river systems.
What is erosion?
500
This makes water a polar molecule.
What is the positive ends of the hydrogen atom are attracted to the negative ends of the oxygen molecule.
500
This is why an entire lake or pond does not evaporate all at once.
What is water on the surface heats up and the top layer evaporates.
500
This is how many times larger a water droplet needs to grow before it's heavy enough to fall.
What is one million times larger?
500
If a well is drilled below the water table, but no longer is providing water, this is what land owners would have to do. 2 Answers
What is dig the well deeper or wait for recharge (precipitation).
500
This is the main difference between lakes and ponds.
What is light does not penetrate to the bottom of a lake, ponds receive light all the way through.
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