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Water Cycle
100

This property of water allows a pin to float on the surface of water, or an insect to walk on water.

What is cohesion at the surface (surface tension)?

100
This is the number of hydrogen atoms in a water molecule..
What is two?
100

In the lab, what tools are commonly used to measure mass?

What is a scale or balance?

100
A student is recording the volume of a liquid. What unit of measurement will she use?
What is liters?
100
After swimming, you leave your towel out in the sun. An hour later, the towel is dry. What part of the water cycle best describes this process?
What is evaporation?
200
This property of water demonstrates the attraction of one water molecule to another.
What is cohesion?
200
This is the number of oxygen atoms in a water molecule.
What is 1?
200

In the lab, what tools are commonly used to measure mass?

What is a scale or double beam balance?

200
In the lab, what tools are commonly used to measure volume?
What is a beaker or graduated cylinder?
200
Snow, rain, sleet, hail. These are all examples of what part of the water cycle?
What is precipitation?
300
This property of water allows water to "climb" up substances.
What is capillary action?
300

Water is _________, so it is a universal solvent for other polar compounds.

What is polar?

300
This is the smallest particle of matter.
What is an atom?
300

This unit of measurement is used to label mass.

What is grams?

300
Clouds and fog are examples of what part of the water cycle?
What is condensation?
400
Water molecules tend to "stick" together because of positively and negatively charged "ends" of the molecule. So, we say it is what kind of molecule?
What is a polar molecule?
400

This type of bond means there is an unequal sharing of electrons within a molecule.

What is a polar covalent bond?

400
This is formed when two or more atoms combine. For example, water is one.
What is a molecule?
400

This metric prefix means "1000".

What is kilo-?

400
Lakes, rivers, streams and puddles are examples of what part of the water cycle?
What is accumulation?
500
This property describes tightness across the surface of water, caused by the polar molecules pulling on one another.
What is surface tension?
500

What type of bonds hold together the three atoms within a water molecule?

What are polar covalent bonds?

500
When two or more atoms bond together, what us made?
What is a molecule?
500
This system of measurement is used in science.
What is the metric or SI system?
500

What part of the water cycle is not visible?

What is water vapor or evaporation?