Why is Water Important to life?
One of the main roles of water in organisms is when water carries nutrients, such as proteins, to cells and even within cells.
What is Transport?
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Energy from the Sun breaks the bonds between water molecules.
What is evaporation?
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Happens to the particles when the density of a material increases in ice.
What is they spread out?
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Water waste flowing out of a pipe is an example of ___.
What is point-source pollution?
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What is measuring levels of dissolved gases, temperature, acidity, and cloudiness?
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One of the reasons life can exist on Earth.
What is Earth's atmosphere traps thermal energy from the Sun?
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____ and ____ drive the water cycle.
What is the Sun and gravity?
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The density of ice is much ____ than the density of water.
What is lower?
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Runoff from large areas, such as lawns, roads, and urban areas.
What is non-point-source pollution?
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Fish can breathe under water but humans cannot.
What is dissolved oxygen?
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Water's high specific heat is important to life on Earth.
What is Water vapor in the air helps control the rate at which air temperature changes?
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Occurs when a plant has an abundant water supply or air temperatures increase.
What is transpire
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The pattern molecules make when water cools to 4 degrees C.
What is six-sided pattern?
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Nonpoint-source pollution can harm ____ and _____.
What is certain types of fish and drinking water?
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Long-tern changes in the acidity of water can affect the entire _____.
What is ecosystem?
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Water is essential for a chemical reaction to occur within living things.
What is Photosynthesis?
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Water turn into a _____ as water vapor from the transpiration and evaporation rises in the atmosphere.
What is liquid?
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Happens to the molecules in ice.
What is they spread out?
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The nonpoint-source pollution can have ____, ____, and ____.
What is sediment, fertilizers, and oil?
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Device called a Secchi disk is used for ____ in turbidity.
What is measurement?
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Three important things that water helps for life on Earth.
What is
Biological functions
Keeps Earth Warm
Stabilizes Earths Temperature?
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Evaporation occurs throughout this place.
What is the hydrosphere?
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Would happen if lakes froze from the bottom to the top.
What is the organisms freeze with it?
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Certain types of fish might not be safe for humans to eat.
What is they have high levels of toxins in their tissues from nonpoint-source pollution?
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Produces a very unhealthy ecosystem.
What is when algae die?