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Water Vocabulary
Aqautic Science Water Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polar | pertaining to North or South pole; capable of ionizing H2O has + end and - end |
| Cohesion | molecular force between particles within a body or substance |
| Adhesion | molecular force of attraction in the area of contact between unlike bodies that act to hold them together |
| Evaporation | changing of water from a liquid to a gas |
| Transpiration | passage of H2O through a plant from the roots through the vascular system to the atmosphere |
| Condensation | the act or process of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid form |
| Precipitation | falling products of condensation in the atmosphere, as rain, snow or hail |
| Surface Water | water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, wetland or ocean |
| Ground Water | water beneath the earths surface, often between saturated soil and rock |
| Bay | a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf |
| Gulf | a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land |
| Harbor | a part of a body of H2O along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respected to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves and currents |
| Lake | a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land |
| Ocean | vast body of salt H2O covers almost 3/4s of the earths surface |
| River | a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite path |
| Sound | an inlet, bay or recessed portion of the ocean |
| Strait | a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water |
| Reservoir | lake used to store water for community use |
| Watershed | a ridge of land that separeates two adjacent river systems |
| Compound | a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients indefinite proportion by weight |
| Aquifer | underground bed or layer yielding groundwater for wells and springs |
| Porosity | the percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces |
| Solvent | a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances |
| Freshwater | relating to or living in or consisting of water that is not salty |
| Saltwater | water that contains dissolved salts and other minerals |
| Brackish Water | mixture of fresh and salt water |
| Estuary | an arm or inlet of the sea at the lower end of a river |
| Accumulation | the act or process of water collecting together or becoming collected |
| Percolation | the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium |
| Water Cycle | The cycle of evaporation and condensation that controls the distribution of the earth's water as it evaporates from bodies of water, condenses, precipitates, and returns to those bodies of water; also called hydrologic cycle |
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