SLM Envi Sci Q2 Week 2
SLM Envi Sci Q2 Week 2
SLM Envi Sci Q2 Week 2
Environmental
Science
Quarter II - Module 2:
Distribution of Earth’s Water and its Properties
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Introduction
After you answer this learning module, you will be able to achieve the following
objectives:
As far as we know, the earth is divided into three layers. The lithosphere, the
atmosphere and particularly the hydrosphere.
In the previous module, you have learned something about hydrosphere. The
hydrosphere is mostly made up of water. How is water distributed here on earth?
In this lesson you will learn how water is distributed and its properties.
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PRETEST
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper.
1. Which of the following contains the greatest amount of water by volume on
earth?
a. atmosphere
b. oceans
c. glaciers and ice sheets
d. ground water
2. It is the process whereby fast- moving molecules in a liquid escape from
free surface of the liquid.
a. evaporation
b. condensation
c. precipitation
d. none of the above
3. What percentage of the Earth's total water is liquid fresh water?
a. 1%
b. 20%
c. 3%
d. 97%
4. Which of the following body of water does not belong to the group?
a. stream
b. swamp
c. rapid
d. waterfall
5. What percentage of the Earth is covered with sea water?
a. 1%
b. 3%
c. 30%
d. 97%
6. Which of following is the world’s largest ocean?
a. Pacific Ocean
b. Indian Ocean
c. Arctic Ocean
d. Atlantic Ocean
7. What property of water helps to moderate earth’s temperature?
a. adhesion
b. latent heat vaporization
c. specific heat capacity
d. cohesion
8. What elements make up water?
a. helium and carbon
b. oxygen and carbon
c. helium and oxygen
d. hydrogen and oxygen
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9. Why does ice float on water?
a. ice floats because it is less dense than liquid water.
b. ice floats because it is denser than liquid water
c. all of the above.
d. What do we call Which of the following contains the greatest amount of
water by volume on earth?
10. This bond is created by the weak attraction of a slightly positive to a hydrogen
atom, to a slightly negative portion of another molecule.
a. Chemical bond
b. hydrogen bond
c. covalent bond
d. ionic bond
11. Which of the following would most likely happen if the density of surface water
in the lake does not change?
a. There will be continuous exchange of oxygen and minerals in the lake
b. Plants and animals at the bottom of the lake cannot go to the surface.
c. There will be lowering of the level of water in the lake.
d. All of the above
12. Lakes are large bodies of standing water held in deep areas called
a. basins
b. rapid
c. crooks
d. waterfall
13. Why is water so important to living things?
a. Living things need water to live
b. We need water to waste it
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
14. It is a large natural stream of flowing water that empties into lakes,
estuaries or oceans.
a. waterfall
b. river
c. ponds
d. swamps
15. What type of water is in the ocean?
a. salt water
b. fresh water
c. ground water
d. none of the above
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Learn
The Hydrosphere
The hydrosphere is the liquid portion of planet Earth. It includes all bodies of
water found over and under the Earth’s surface. Water is one of the most abundant
substances on earth. It can be found anywhere on earth.
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Types of the Body of Water
The Philippine archipelago has a lot of inland bodies of water. Inland bodies
of water are divided into two types: the lotic or flowing water system and the lentic or
standing water.
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Figure 1.1: (A) stream (B) rapid
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Lakes are large bodies of standing water held in deep areas called basins.
Ponds are shallower and smaller bodies of standing water, which support the
growth of aquatic plants throughout.
Swamps are bodies of standing water that are generally wider than ponds and
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lakes but are comparatively shallower due to the thick deposits of sediments at the
bottom.
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(B ) swamp
Underground Water system
Rainwater that falls on the surface may runoff and eventually reach a body of
water or may infiltrate the soil and be stored there for a long period of time.
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Notes to the Teacher
Provide a separate sheet or extra copy of this activity for
student’s use.
To find out the distribution of the earth’s water, look at Table 1.1 below.
Direction: Complete the third column by computing the corresponding volume of the
water at different locations.
Activity 1.1
Using Table 1.1, answer the following questions:
The earth’s water may be found in the atmosphere, on the surface, and
underground. The total amount of water on earth is estimated to be 1.36 billion cubic
kilometers. Of this total, 97.2% or 1.28 billion cubic kilometers is part of the world’s
oceans 2.15% or .03 billion cubic kilometers exist as ice sheets and glaciers, and
0.65% or .009 billion cubic kilometers is divided among lakes, streams, subsurface
water, and the atmosphere. Compared to the volume of water in the ocean, the
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volume of subsurface water or ground water, which is the source of fresh water, is
very small. A greater part of this freshwater is in the form of ice and is not available
for consumption. With the growing population, demand for fresh water is increasing.
There is really a need to conserve fresh water.
If you look at the globe or world map, you will find out that the land and water
are not evenly distributed between the two hemispheres. There are more land areas
than water areas in the Northern Hemisphere while in the Southern Hemisphere
there are more water areas than land areas. For this reason, the Northern
Hemisphere is called the land hemisphere while the Southern Hemisphere is called
the water hemisphere.
You might wonder that since there is a very small amount of fresh water
available, there will not be enough for man, plants, and animals. But remember that
there is a continuous cycle of water or the hydrologic cycle as shown in Figure 1.1
because of this hydrologic sample, enough precipitation falls every year, which covers
0.85 meter of the earth’s surface. The degree of precipitation differs from one region
to another.
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Figure 1.1: The hydrologic cycle maintains a constant supply of water on earth
Figure 1.1 shows that more water is evaporated from the ocean than what
goes back to it and there is more water that falls on land than what was evaporated
from it. Studies shows that only two-thirds of the water that falls to the surface of
the earth is evaporated back to the atmosphere. The other one-third sinks into the
ground or flows back into rivers or oceans.
Water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface is
called ground water. The upper surface of the saturated zone is called the water
table. It fills the pores and fractures in underground materials such as sand, gravel,
and rocks.
The hydrosphere is the combined mass of water found on, under and above
the surface of a planet.
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Activity 1.2 The Water Cycle
Materials Needed:
Procedure:
Did you notice that when the crushed ice was placed on the cover of a wide-
mouthed bottle with hot water, smoke-like material was observed inside the bottle
and after sometime moisture was formed in the sides of the bottle and the inside part
of the cover? Did you also notice that water droplets fall back to the water from the
top cover?
Water evaporates from the surface of hot water. Evaporation is the process
whereby fast-moving molecules in a liquid escape from the free surface of the liquid.
The ice on the top cover cooled the upper air inside the bottle. When rising water
vapor reached the top it also cooled because it gives off heat to the cold air on top
and changed phase from gas to liquid is called condensation. Water vapor
condensed as it is cooled to condensation temperature.
Properties of Water
Why water considered unique? Pure water has no color, no taste, and no
smell. It is one of the simplest chemical substances made of just three atoms- two
atoms of hydrogen (H) and one atom of oxygen (O). However, unlike other chemical
substances, it is everywhere- in clouds, oceans, ice, steam, and even underground.
Without water, there would be no oceans, no lakes, no rivers, no rain, no snow, no
clouds, no polar ice caps, no soft drinks nor juices, nothing to drink whatsoever, and
probably no you, no me, no nothing! Water has a structure that seems common yet
makes it uncommon to all other chemicals.
Water is a Polar Molecule
Water is a ‘’polar’’ molecule, meaning that there is uneven distribution of
electron density. Water has a partial negative charge( ) near the oxygen atom due
the unshared pairs of electrons, partial positive negative charges (Delta-) near the
hydrogen atoms. Hydrogen bond is created by the weak attraction of a slightly
positive to a hydrogen atom to a slightly negative portion of another molecule.
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Water Has High Surface tension
The ability of water molecules to break and reform hydrogen bonds explains
why it has high surface tension. The hydrogen bonds enable water to exhibit high
amount of cohesion making it ‘’sticky’’ and set up a sort of ‘’ water barrier’’ that allows
things like needle, toothpick, and blade to float on the surface of the water and
causes water to form droplets.
Adhesion and cohesion are water properties that affect every water molecule on
Earth and also the interaction of water molecules with molecules of other substances.
Essentially, cohesion and adhesion are the "stickiness" that water molecules have for
each other and for other substances
Importance of Water
Water is one of the most important substances on earth. All plants and
animals must have water to survive. If there was no water there would be no life on
earth.
Apart from drinking it to survive, people have many other uses for water.
These include:
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• Cooking
• washing their bodies
• washing clothes
• washing cooking and eating utensils; such as billies, saucepans,
crockery and cutlery
• keeping houses and communities clean
• recreation; such as swimming pools
• keeping plants alive in gardens and parks. Water is also essential for
the healthy growth of farm crops and farm stock and is used in the
manufacture of many products.
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Engage
ACTIVITY 1. WHAT AM I?
Direction: Identify the following items by rearranging the jumbled letters. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.
2. When rising water vapor reached the top it also cooled because it gives
off heat to the cold air on top and changed phase from gas to liquid is
called
(INSEDONCNATA)
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5. There are many uses of _____ from drinking and cleaning to irrigating
crops and landscapes.
(TEWAR)
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Apply
Rubrics
Layout Content
Organization Originality Neatness Total
& design Knowledge
(15%) (15%) (20%) (35%) (15%) (100%)
B. From the words listed in the box choose which of these words would describe
the properties of water.
C. Make a graphic organizer on why water is very essential. Use a separate sheet of
paper for your answer.
Importance
of Water
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Assess
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper of paper.
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8. Which of following is the world’s largest ocean?
a. Pacific Ocean
b. Indian Ocean
c. Arctic Ocean
d. Atlantic Ocean
9. Why is water so important to living thing?
a. Living things need water to live
b. We need water to waste it
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
10. What is the process whereby fast-moving molecules in a liquid escape
from the free surface of the liquid?
a. cohesion
b. evaporation
c. condensation
d. precipitation
11. This bond is created by the weak attraction of a slightly positive to a hydrogen
atom, to a slightly negative portion of another molecule.
a. chemical bond
b. hydrogen bond
c. covalent bond
d. ionic bond
12. Which of the following contains the greatest amount of water by volume on
earth?
a. oceans
b. groundwater
c. glaciers and ice sheets
d. atmosphere
13. It is a property of water wherein it measures the quantity of heat that
must flow into or out of system to change 0 degree to 1 degree Celsius.
a. heat capacity
b. heat flow
c. hydrogen bond
d. ionic bond
14. Which of the following process are arranged properly?
a. condensation → evaporation → precipitation
b. evaporation →precipitation → condensation
c. evaporation → condensation → precipitation
d. precipitation → condensation → evaporation
15. Water, more than any other substance is capable of dissolving more
substances is called __________________ .
a. universal solute
b. universal solvent
c. universal quantity
d. standard solvent
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Reflect
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References
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Estrelita A. Madriaga et.al, Science Links Integrated Science I
Lee, S. & Añes, M., Environmental Science 2nd Edition
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