Water Review

Match the following vocabulary terms with the right definitions.

• salinity

• the amount of salt and other dissolved

  minerals that water contains

• upwelling

• a large stream of water that moves

  through the ocean

• freshwater

• the process of cold, dense, nutrient-rich

  water rising to replace warm surface water

  lost to wind movement and evaporation

• water cycle

• the process of water moving from the

  air to the ground to various water

  sources and back into the air

• current

• water that contains little to no dissolved

  elements, especially salt

The ability something has to stick to itself is (a)   tension.

• tension
• frozen
• surface

Water that seeps into the soil and is stored below ground

is ​ (a)   .

• groundwater
• frozen
• evaporates

A glacier is an example of ​ (a)   freshwater.

• frozen
• evaporates
• surface

Of all the liquids, water has the highest surface ​ (a)   .

• tension
• frozen
• groundwater

Water ​ (a)   when it turns from a liquid to a gas.

• evaporates
• frozen
• tension

In the water cycle, water can become a ........

• solid, liquid, gas

• red, blue, yellow

........ help circulate ocean water around the world.

• Deep ocean currents

• Clouds

Ocean waters have three ___ levels.

• salinity

• depth

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Properties of freshwater

,

(b) Properties of Halloween

• jack-o-lanterns

• costumes

• liquid, solid, gas

• dissolves more than any other substance

• skeletons

• high surface tension

• ghosts

• high heat capacity