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Properties and Uses of Water Quiz
Properties and Uses of Water Quiz
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6th Grade
09/17/2012

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Properties and Uses of Water
Quiz Chapter 1
Definition
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Five Ways People Use Water
Definition
Household, Agriculture, Industry, Transportation, and Recreation
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What percent of Earth's surface is Ocean?
Definition
70-71%
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What percent of all water on Earth is salt water?
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97%
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Four sources of freshwater
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Deep ground water, Shallow ground water, Ice, Water vapor, Lakes and Rivers
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Water is made up of
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Hydrogen and Oxygen H2O
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Solvent
Definition
A substance that dissolves another substance
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Water is the universal solvent because
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It dissolves so many things
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Ice floats because
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The molecules line up and trap air which makes ice less dense
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