Sticky water
This is when water molecules stick to other substances.
What is adhesion?
The elements that make up a water molecule are ________ and _________.
What is hydrogen and oxygen?
Water exists in all three states ____, ______, and ______ only on earth.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
Water (rain, ice, snow) has shaped our environment by _____ and ______ weathering.
What is Physical and Chemical?
The high ground between two drainage basins.
What is divide?
This is when water molecules stick together, such as raindrops on a car window.
What is cohesion?
The hydrogen side of a water molecule has a slightly ________ charge.
What is positive?
Ice is less ________ than water, which causes it to float.
What is deanse?
Breaking rock without any change in the minerals of the rock is called _______ _________.
What is physical weathering?
The shape of the land as determined by elevation and landforms.
What is topography?
Water has a high _______ tension, which allows water striders to walk on the water or paper clips to float instead of sink.
What is surface?
The oxygen side of a water molecule has a slightly ________ charge.
What is negative?
Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid, giving it the name ______ _________.
What is universal solvent?
Physical weathering produces small _______ and ________.
What is cracks and sediment?
Loose material such as sand, mud, and small pieces of rock.
What is sediment?
This is when water molecules stick together.
What is cohesion?
Opposite charges _________.
What is attract?
When water freezes it becomes ice, what state of matter would this be?
What is solid?
Ice wedging is an example of this type of weathering.
What is physical weathering.
The amount of salt in a substance.
What is salinity?
This is when water molecules stick to other things, such as water molecules sticking to a spider web.
What is adhesion?
Water ______ when it freezes.
What is expands?
Water has the ability to absorb _____ energy without showing relatively large changes in temperature.
What is heat?
Water dissolves minerals in rocks (hydrolysis), carbonic acids combine with raindrops to break apart minerals (acid rain), and oxygen can oxidize iron (oxidation/rusting). These reactions are known as _________ ____________.
What is chemical weathering?
Bugs that can be seen without using a microscope.
What is macro invertebrates?