The cycle in which water evaporates, condenses, and returns to the earth through precipitation.
What is The Water Cycle?
100
What is it called when a jar of water is murky?
What is turbidity?
100
What type of pollution can be directly located, such as a pipe pouring water into a stream called?
Point source pollution.
100
What is the chemical equation for water?
H2 O
100
The two types of charges that atoms produce.
What are positive and negative?
200
The part of the water cycle in which plants release water into the air as the plant heats up?
What is transpiration?
200
What is it called when the atmosphere holds a lot of water making people feel sticky and uncomfortable?
What is humidity?
200
When farmers use fertilizers to grow their plants, what can happen to our drinking water?
The fertilizer can soak into the ground and mix with the drinking water polluting it.
200
Water is made up of these two elements.
Hydrogen and Oxygen
200
The is part of the atom is negatively charged.
What is an electron?
300
Names the four types of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
300
Where is most of the fresh water on earth located?
What is polar ice caps?
300
What is run-off?
Run-off is when it rains and the water runs down carrying water and some topsoil with it.
300
This gas is listed on the table created by Mendeleev under "H e" and can cause objects filled with it to rise.
What is helium?
300
This part of the atom is positively charged.
What is a proton?
400
This part of the water cycle takes place in the clouds when the air cools and dust wraps itself around drops of water.
What is condensation?
400
Where is most of our drinking water located?
What is ground water?
400
Water is in an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or
unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt) from which groundwater can be extracted. What is this called?
What is an aquifer.
400
Who created the chemistry chart that lists the elements and minerals?
Dimitri Mendeleev
400
This negatively charged part of the atom circles around the outside of the atom.
What is an electron?
500
This from of energy causes the events of the water cycle to take place.
What is heat from the sun?
500
What is the largest body of water on the planet?
The ocean.
500
Name two forms of pollution.
Water pollution and air pollution.
500
What is the name of the chart that lists the elements?