Water and Climate vocabulary

What is the definition of absorb?

• when a liquid soaks into a material

• to get bigger; to take up space

• when liquid water in a material dries up and goes into the air

• anything that has mass and takes up space

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What does climate mean?

• when water vapor touches a cool surface and becomes liquid water

• the ability to make things happen; can take a number of forms such as heat and light

• the average or typical weather conditions in a region of the world

• water vapor in the air

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the definition of condense?

• to predict future events or conditions, such as weather

• when water vapor touches a cool surface and becomes liquid water

• to get bigger; to take up more space

• the gaseous state of water

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What does contract mean?

• to get smaller, take up less space

• when liquid water in a material dries up and goes into the air

• to get bigger; to take up more space

• to predict future events or conditions, such as weather

What is energy?

• when liquid water in a material dries up and goes into the air

• the gaseous state of water

• the ability to make things happen; can take a number of forms such as light or heat

• water vapor in the air

What does evaporate mean?

• the condition of the air around us

• water vapor in the air

• the skinlike surface on water that pulls it together to make it into the smallest possible volume

• when liquid water in a material dries up and goes into the air

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is the definition of expand?

• to get bigger; to take up more space

• to get smaller, to take up less space

• the average typical weather conditions in a region of the world

• to predict future events or conditions; such as weather

What does forecast mean?

• the condition of the air around us

• to predict the future events or condition, such as weather

• the ability to make things happen; can take a number of forms such as heat and light

• the gaseous state of water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the definition of humidity?

• the condition of the air around us

• the gaseous state of water

• water vapor in the air

• when water vapor touches a cool surface and becomes liquid water

What is water vapor?

• the average or typical weather conditions in a region of the world

• when water soaks into a material

• to get smaller; to take up less space

• the gaseous state of water

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4