Nature of Science
Structure of Water
Properties of Water
Water Sources
Water Issues
100
A prediction about your experimental results
What is a hypothesis?
100
The chemical formula of water
What is H20?
100
Water sticks to water
What is cohesion?
100
Water that seeps into the soil and fills in the spaces (pores) between soil particles and rocks
What is groundwater?
100
Ocean becomes more acidic because there is more carbon dioxide in the air
What is ocean acidification?
200
The variable you want to change on purpose
What is the independent variable?
200
The three subatomic particles
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
200
Water sticks to any other substance
What is adhesion?
200
An area of land that drains all the stream and rainfall to a common outlet
What is a watershed?
200
More heat energy on ocean causes temperature of ocean water to increase
what is ocean warming?
300
The variable that you measure or observe
What is the dependent variable?
300
The unequal sharing of electrons
What is polarity?
300
Water molecules at the surface of a body of water stick together
What is surface tension?
300
The difference between porosity and permeability
What is porosity is the volume of pores the soil has and permeability is how much a fluid can pass through the soil?
300
Extremely small pieces of plastic. Enter oceans by way of wind transport, runoff, storms, precipitation.
What are microplastics?
400
What you use to record and display data
What is a graph?
400
Bonding between water molecules
What is a hydrogen bond?
400
When ice floats in water
What is density?
400
The functions of wetlands
What is filtering water, protect from floods, provide food, wildlife habitat, prevent erosion, healthier watershed?
400
A body of water progressively becomes enriched with nutrients and minerals
What is eutrophication?
500
Identify the IV and DV from the following experiment: The Effect of Salt Water on Plant Growth.
IV: Salt Water
DV: Plant Growth
500
Use the board to draw two water molecules and label each atom, covalent bond, hydrogen bond, and polarity.
Answers may vary.
500
It takes a long time for the temperature of water to increase because of...
What is high specific heat?
500
What is zone of aeration, water table, and zone of saturation?
500
Wildlife habitat, slows down runoff, controls flooding, protects from erosion and nutrient leakage
What are benefits of riparian buffers?