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water
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Water Uses: | |
| Irrigation: | the process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops |
| Water & Living: | water is essential for living things to grow, reproduce, and carry out other important process |
| Photosynthesis: | plants making food from using the energy in sun, water and carbon dioxide (CO2) |
| Water distribution: | |
| Water vapor: | |
| Groundwater: | |
| Polar molecule: | |
| Surface tension: | the tightness across the surface of water that is caused by the polar molecules pulling on each other |
| Capillary action: | combined force of attraction among water molecules and with the molecules of surrounding materials |
| Solution: | |
| Solvent: | |
| Solute: | |
| Universal solvent: | water is called this because it is a polar substance that can dissolve most substances |
| Hydrophobic: | |
| Hydrophilic: | |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Transpiration: | |
| Cloud formation: | |
| Precipitation: | |
| 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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