| A | B |
|---|
| Solution | a mixture that forms when one substance dissolves another |
| Solvent | substance that dissolves another substance |
| Water | universal solvent |
| Transpiration | process by which plants give off water vapor through their leaves |
| Evaporation | process where molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas |
| Condensation | process where gas changes to liquid |
| Capillary Action | allow water to rise up a narrow tube |
| Water cycle | continuous process where water moves from earth's surface to the atmosphere, back to earth's surface includes evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration |
| Wetland | Marshes/swamps/bogs |
| Wetland | a land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year |
| Polar Molecule | a molecule that has electrically charge areas |
| Habitat | place where an organism lives |
| Concentration | amount of one substance in a certain volume of another substance |
| High Coliform Count? | Water might contain a large number of disease-causing organisms |
| Chorine | Added to drinking water to kill bacteria and other organisms |
| Sewage | Wastewater and the different types of wastes that are in it |
| Drought | condition where an area gets less precipitation than normal for a few years |
| Conservation | using resources wisely so that they will not be all used up |
| Acid Rain | the result of sulfur and nitrogen reacting with water in the atmosphere |
| Pesticides | chemicals intended to kill insects and other organisms that damage crops |
| Hydroelectric power plant | changes the energy of moving water to electrical energy |
| Wave strengths depend on... | wave height |
| Tsunamis | giant wave that is caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor |
| Tsunamis usually happen in the... | Pacific Ocean |
| Nekton | Free-swimming animals that move throughout the water column |
| Surface zone | only part of the open ocean that receives enough sunlight to support algae growoth |
| Coriolis effect | effect of the earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents-ocean currents curve to the right |
| Neritic zone | area of the ocean that extends from the low tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf |
| Neritic Zone | coral reefs and kelp forests found here |
| What happens as you go deeper into the ocean? | Temperature, light, and number of algae decreases |
| What causes surface currents and waves? | Wind |
| Deep zone | hard to explore because of darkness, cold temperature and high water pressure |
| Nodules | lump on the ocean floor that forms when metals build up around pieces of a shell |
| Salinity | total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample |
| Esturaries | coastal inlet or bay where fresh water from rivers mixes salt ocean waters; river carry pollutants to the estuaries |
