Water Properties
Water's chemical compound.
What is H2O?
Percent of ocean water.
What is 97.5%?
What is water that falls from the atmosphere to earth?
Define runoff.
What is water running over the ground?
True or False: The Great Lakes are owned fully by the United States.
Define universal solvent.
What is dissolves more substances than other liquids do?
Percent of Fresh Water.
What is 2.5%?
Define percolation.
What is when water sinks into the ground?
Define an "old river".
What is very slow, doesn't erode?
_ Great Lakes touch Michigan.
What is 4?
Define adhesion.
What is the force of attraction between unlike bodies?
Percent of fresh water that is frozen.
What is 79%?
Define transpiration.
What is when plants lose water?
Define a "mature" river.
What is a fast moving, eroding, and has waterfalls river?
The Huron River runs into Lake _____
What is Erie, not Huron?
Define cohesion.
What is the force of attraction between particles of the same kind?
Percent of fresh water that is underground.
What is 20%?
Define evaporation.
What is the transformation of a liquid to a gas?
Define a "young" river.
When in Michigan you are no more than _ _____ from a body of water.
What is 3 miles?
Define surface tension.
What is the greater force acting on particles on the surface of a liquid?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!! How many Great Lakes are there, and what are they?
What is 5, and Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
Define condensation.
What is the changing of a substance from a gas to a liquid?
What type of river is a river that is slow, and does not erode?
What is old?
Define desalination.