Water Review

Match the following vocabulary terms with the right definitions.

• current

• the process of cold, dense, nutrient-rich

  water rising to replace warm surface water

  lost to wind movement and evaporation

• salinity

• the amount of salt and other dissolved

  minerals that water contains

• freshwater

• a large stream of water that moves

  through the ocean

• water cycle

• water that contains little to no dissolved

  elements, especially salt

• upwelling

• the process of water moving from the

  air to the ground to various water

  sources and back into the air

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

• high surface tension

• dissolves more than any other substance

• high heat capacity

• costumes

• liquid, solid, gas

• skeletons

• ghosts