Water and Its Properties
Anything that has a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other
What is polarity?
What is the sun?
A region of land where all the surface water drains to the same place
What is a watershed?
Ocean water density is affected by (two things):
What is temperature and salinity?
Water that is safe to drink
What is potable water?
What is 97% to 3%?
When plants release water vapor into the air
What is transpiration?
The process of the water table rising and groundwater becoming surface water
What is discharge?
When warm surface water is replaced by cold, nutrient-rich water from deep ocean
What is upwelling?
Type of pollution: Farm animal waste runoff into a nearby stream
What is biological pollution?
Two things that water transports
What is matter and energy?
Water vapor turns to a solid
The amount of water that moves through a river channel in a period of time
What is flow?
As water is warmed at the equator, it moves towards the _______ and cools and eventually sinks.
What are the poles?
Water that exists as frozen groundwater
What is permafrost?
The energy needed to heat a substance by a particular amount
What is specific heat?
Two ways that water makes its way back to the Earth's surface
What is precipitation and condensation?
Measure of the change in elevation
What is gradient?
The three things that affect surface currents
What are the coriolis effect, global winds, and continental deflection?
Water quality measurements (name 3):
What are pH, dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and microbial load?
Four of water's main roles (or purposes) on Earth
What is influencing weather, supporting life, shaping Earth's surface, and supporting human activity
Another word for the water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The city of Gahanna builds a road on land that was once a grassy field. This decreases the __________ of water into the ground.
What is permeability?
The name of the current that Crush rides in Finding Nemo
What is the East Australian Current?
The federal agency that protects human health and ensures safe drinking water for the people of the United States
What is Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?