2. WATER VOCABULARY

3. water: a liquid earth material

4. absorb: to soak up

5. bead up: form a ball shape

6. wet: Water is there.

7. dry: No water is there.

8. 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.

9. surface tension: when water beads up

10. dome: this shape

11. porous: having holes

12. slope: a slant, like on a hill or ramp

13. gentle slope: steep slope:

14. surface: the top or outside (skin) of something

15. flow: when liquid moves

16. expand: to grow, get bigger, spread out

17. contract: get smaller, pull in, come together

18. sink: fall under the surface and toward the bottom

19. has molecules closer together; takes up less space denser:

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

21. less dense: molecules spread out, need more space