Weather and Climate Investigation 1 Vocab

When water is soaked into a material

• repel

• absorb

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What do we call a dome shaped drop of water

• water drop

• bead

What happens to a drop of water when it falls on a waterproof surface like a leaf, rain jacket, or wax paper?

• beads up

• absorbs

the course or line along which something moves, faces, lies or points

• bead

• conserve

• direction

the shape a drop of water takes when it is on a flat surface. It is like a flattened hemisphere.

• bead

• drops

• dome

to change place or direction; to put in motion (think of how water will _____ on a slope).

• move

• stop

• direction

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What do we call it when a drop of water does not absorb on material?

• repels

• moves

Skin like surface on water that pulls it together. This is why some insects can walk on water, or why water drops make a sphere

• absorb

• surface tension

• gravity

What is another word for a non-absorbent surface on which water will bead up and flow off? - think of a rain jacket or rain boots

• waterproof

• absorb