Vocab 1
What is condensation?
East Ferris is experiencing a ____ ______, which means they are on the side of the island that gets less rain. (Not water shortage)
What is a rain shadow?
East Ferris is experiencing a water shortage because they get less _______ than West Ferris.
What is rain/condensation?
When I mix baking soda and vinegar, it makes a gas called _____ _____.
What is Carbon Dioxide? (CO2)
Earth is approximately _____ percent saltwater.
What is 70?
The process where liquid water turns into water vapor is called _______.
What is evaporation?
The process where I combine two substances and they are turned into new matter is called ______ _______.
What are chemical reactions?
One solution for East Ferris is to use _____ _____ to clean their wastewater and make it fresh.
What are chemical reactions?
When a chemical reaction happens, something ____ is made.
What is new?
Most of our freshwater on earth is found in ________.
What are glaciers?
Precipitation can be in 4 different forms. Name them.
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
What is the water cycle?
One solution for East Ferris is to build a _____ ______ to catch their rainwater.
What is a water reservoir?
In a chemical reaction, matter is neither _____ nor _____.
What is created/destroyed?
When scientists ________ information, they put together multiple pieces of information to form a new understanding.
What is synthesize?
Water that has been contaminated and is no longer available to use is called ________.
What is wastewater?
Scientists who design solutions to problems are called _________.
What are engineers?
What is colder?
When new substances are made in chemical reactions, they have different _________.
What are properties?
________ ________ are ways scientists can write out their ideas and explain why things happen in the scientific world.
What are scientific explanations?
There are four parts of the earth system. Name them.
What are the geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere?
We observe different _______ of substances, including what they look like, smell like, or feel like.
What are properties?
Adding substances to wastewater will cause a _____ _____.
What is a chemical reaction?
East Ferris could use chemical reactions to get _____ _______ out of the wastewater to make it usable again.
What are harmful substances?
Approximately _______ of the world is experiencing a water shortage.
(Looking for a fraction)
What is 1/5?