Hydrosphere Vocabulary

_______ is a major source of water pollution. As the water runs along a surface, it picks up litter, petroleum, chemicals, fertilizers, and other toxic substances.

• specific heat

• runoff

• polarity

• transpiration

_________ happens when a liquid substance becomes a gas. The molecules move and vibrate so quickly that they escape into the atmosphere as molecules of water vapor.

• precipitation

• transpiration

• evaporation

• surface tension

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

_________ is the evaporation of water from plants, especially leaves.

• transpiration

• evaporation

• precipitation

• specific heat

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius?

• heat of evaporation

• cohesion

• specific heat

• adhesion

________is the process of water soaking into the soil and rocks from the surface. It takes place at the UPPERMOST levels of the soil and soaks into the ground vertically.

• Ground water

• Runoff

• Percolation

• Infiltration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

This happens when water moves downward in a vertical direction from soil strata to the water table below the ground through permeable rock by gravity force. It happens after infiltration.

• percolation

• infiltration

• groundwater

• hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

This is a property of water that can cause things to float which are denser than water, allowing organisms to literally walk on water. It also allows for the formation and shape of water droplets that we see in nature.

• cohesion

• surface tension

• adhesion

• percolation

___________ is the attraction of molecules of one kind for molecules of a different kind or the ability of water to stick to surfaces.

• cohesion

• adhesion

• surface tension

• evaporation

_________ is the ability of water molecules to be bond with each other due to polarity.

• polarity

• adhesion

• cohesion

• sublimation

Water (H₂O) exhibits _________ because of the bent shape of the molecule. The shape means most of the negative charge is from the oxygen side of the molecule, and the positive charge of the hydrogen atoms is on the other side of the molecule.

• cohesion

• surface tension

• polarity

• adhesion