WATER VOCABULARY

water: a liquid earth material

absorb: to soak up

bead up: form a ball shape

wet: Water is there.

dry: No water is there.

properties: characteristics; things that tell what something is like or how something is ; what you observe about something using sight, smell, hearing, tasting or touch.

surface tension: when water beads up

dome: this shape

porous: having holes

slope: a slant, like on a hill or ramp

gentle slope: steep slope:

surface: the top or outside (skin) of something

flow: when liquid moves

expand: to grow, get bigger, spread out

contract: get smaller, pull in, come together

sink: fall under the surface and toward the bottom

has molecules closer together; takes up less space denser:

float: In water, it means to go up toward the surface or stay on the surface.

less dense: molecules spread out, need more space