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The Water Planet Vocabulary

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Definition
Water Uses   Household purposes, agriculture, industry, transportation, and recreation.  
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Irrigation   The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.  
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Water & Living   Water is essential for living things to grow, reproduce, and carry out other important process.  
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Photosynthesis   Plants making food from using the energy in the sun, water, and carbon dioxide(CO2).  
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Water distribution   97% salt water, 3 % fresh water.  
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Water vapor   Gaseous form of water.  
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Groundwater   Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.  
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Polar molecule   A molecule that has electrically charged areas; for example: water.  
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Surface Tension   The tightness across the surface of water that is caused by the polar molecules pulling on each other.  
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Capillary action   Combined force of attraction among water molecules and with the molecules of surrounding materials.  
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Solution   A mixture that forms when one substance dissolves another substance.  
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Solvent   The substance that does the dissolving in a solution.  
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Solute   The substance that gets dissolved in a solution.  
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Universal solvent   Water is called this because it is a polar substance that can dissolve most substances.  
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Hydrophobic   Water fearing; non-polar molecules; does not like to mix with water; for example: oil.  
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Hydrophilic   Water loving; polar molecules; likes to mix with water; for example: sugar.  
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Specific heat   The amount of heat needed to increase the temperature of a certain mass of a substance by 1˚C (water has a high specific heat; requires a lot of heat to warm it up).  
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Water cycle   The continuous process by which water moves through the living and nonliving parts of the environment; this process is driven by the sun's energy.  
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Transpiration   The process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves.  
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Cloud formation   Form as water vapor cools and condenses on tiny dust particles in the air.  
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Precipitation   Water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.  
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A global process   The worldwide amounts of evaporation and precipitation balance each other out keeping the total amount of fresh water on Earth fairly constant.  
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