Hydrosphere Vocab

What is the water cycle?

• The cycle on how water is created using 3 key ingredients; attraction, pollution, and evaporation

• The cycle of how water is able to be used over and over again by using a continuous process

• The cycle on how water is destroyed by using condensation

• The cycle on how water comes down from the clouds and precipitates all over the world

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What is a wetland?

• The land underground the earth's surface

• The Pacific Ocean

• The middle of the desert

• An ecosystem that is saturated

What is runoff?

• Flowing water in a river

• Precipitation from the clouds

• Left over rain water that runs on the earths surface

• When you run off of a cliff

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What is cohesion?

• The act of molecules coming together

• When molecules split

• The act of molecules rising up

• The act of molecules sinking down

Partly ionic bonds are....

• Polar Ionic

• Ionic Bonds

• Polar Covalent

• Covalent Bonds

What is Capillary Action?

• The movement of water caused by an external force

• When it's time for caterpillars to go into hibernation

• The act of water flowing through a pipe

• When the water we drink comes out of the faucet

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What is an Aquifer?

• A type of rock that contains water, but only stores it

• A type of rock that contains water, but can store and can extract it

• A type of rock that contains water, but only extracts it

• A type of rock that has no water

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A _________ is a piece of land that helps water go not go into other bodies of water.

• Well

• River Basin

• Dam

• Watershed

Rivers that come together to form a body of water that is partially enclosed by land is called an ________?

• Lake

• Bay

• Estuary

• Wet Land

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Something that is potable is _______?

• something that is dangerous to drink

• water that is boiled in a pot

• something that is dangerous to eat

• something that is secure to drink