Water and Climate Investigation 1

97% of Earth's water is __________ water.

• fresh

• salt

3% of Earth's surface water is ___________ water.

• fresh

• salt

How do leaves and insects stay on the surface of water?

• magic

• water tension

• surface tension

• surfacants

3/4 or 75% of Earth is covered by ______________.

• land

• water

• dirt

• people

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What is surface tension?

• the strong attraction of water particles that creates the skin-like outside of water

• when water spills out of a cup on the table

• the ability to move upward against gravity

Water's ability to form a dome at the top of a cup or allow insects to walk across is called _______________.

• surface tension

• adhesion

• gravity

when liquid soaks into a material

• disappears

• dome

• waterproof

• absorbs

When a liquid sits on top of a material

• bead

• flow

• absorbs

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Absorb

• when a liquid soaks into a material

• when a liquid forms a dome or bead on a waterproof surface

The three states of water

• solid (ice), liquid, gas (water vapor)

• Illinois, Mississippi, Washington

• there are only 2 - solid and liquid

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