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Water and It’s Properties

Water and It’s Properties. WATER AND ITS PROPERTIES. Aim of Lesson 1: To describe the structure of water. Describe the properties of water. Importance of water to Earth’s systems. These will be used to answer the overall question of “What makes water so important?”. Vocabulary.

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Water and It’s Properties

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  1. Water and It’s Properties

  2. WATER AND ITS PROPERTIES Aim of Lesson 1: To describe the structure of water. Describe the properties of water. Importance of water to Earth’s systems. These will be used to answer the overall question of “What makes water so important?”

  3. Vocabulary

  4. What are some of water’s role on Earth? • Influencing weather • Shaping Earth’s Surface • Supporting Life • Supporting Human Activities

  5. Influencing Weather • All weather is related to water • Moves from surface to atmosphere • Clouds • Falls to surface as • Rain • Snow • Hail • Sleet • Depends on moisture in Air

  6. Shaping the Earth’s Surface • Reshapes the landscape • How? • Wears away rock • Carries away sediment and soil • Examples: • Flowing rivers • Ocean waves • Glaciers

  7. Supporting Life • All living things made of water • All biological processes use water • Cellular chemistry • Regulates temperature • Transports substances • What problems can arise with contaminated water?

  8. Supporting Human Activity • Necessary for humans Bathing, cleaning, and watering lawns and gardens • More fresh water used in industry than home • over 20% • Manufacture goods, cooling power stations, clean industrial products, extract minerals, generate energy • Most used in agriculture • Irrigate crops • Farm animals

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