Term 2 Flashcards
Battery
A device that produces electricity to provide power for radios, cars, etc
Aquifer
Any geological formation containing or conducting ground water
Boreholes
A hole drilled in the earth, as for the purpose of extracting a core, releasing gas, oil, water etc
Conclusion
The end or close, final part
Desalinate
To remove the salt from
Clouds
Usually grey or white masses in the sky, made of of very small floating drops of water
Contaminate
to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean or bad
particle
one of the extremely small parts of matter
Pie graphs
circles divided into several parts to represent how the total amount of something is divided up
estuaries
the part of the mouth or lower course of a river in which the river’s current mets the seas tide
fair test
when you carry out investigations, you have to control other things that may affect the results of your investgation
insoluble
impossible to dissolve
line graph
a drawing that uses lines o show how different pieces of information are related to each other
municipal district
an area of land which falls under a certain local authority
result
something that happens as a consequence
