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Andrew King EES 3.1

EES 3.1

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Water A chemical substance made of hydrogen and oxygen that is essential for life, it can be a solid, liquid, or gas.
Capillary action The ability of water to move upward through narrow spaces without the help of gravity due to cohesion and adhesion.
Cohesion The attraction between molecules of the same substance.
Adhesion The attraction between molecules of a different substance.
Property A chemical trait or characteristic of a substance that describes how it looks, behaves, or reacts.
Polarity An uneven distribution of electrical charge in a molecule, which results in a positive and negative side.
Transfer The movement of mater or energy.
Energy The ability to do work or cause change.
Atmosphere The layer of gas surrounding the Earth.
Hydrosphere All water on Earth.
Climate Long term average weather conditions.
Convection The transfer of heat through the movement of fluids.
Freeze To change solid to liquid.
Dissolve To mix evenly into another substance.
Specific heat capacity The amount of matter needed to raise the temperature of a substance.
Solid A state of matter with a definite shape and volume.
Liquid A state of matter with a definite volume but no fixed shape.
Gas A state of matter with no definite shape or volume.
Solute The substance that is dissolved in the solvent.
Solvent The substance that dissolves the solute.
Solution A mixture that forms when a solute dissolves evenly in a solvent.
Surface tension The force at the surface of liquid that acts like stretched skin due to cohesion.
Water cycle The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the earth.
Kelvin scale A temperature scale that starts at absolute zero and is used mainly in science.
Absolute scale The scale that is used when precise values are needed in comparison to a an unchanging zero point.
Universal solvent A substance that can dissolve many other substances.
Homogeneous solution A mixture that is uniform throughout and has the same composition everywhere.
Heterogeneous solution A mixture that is not uniform and has visibly different parts.
Example of homogeneous
Example of heterogeneous
Example of cohesion
Example of adhesion
Example of Surface tension
Example of capillary action
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