3rd Grade Vocabulary

1. A substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.\
4. To become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
5. The elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
9. To melt; liquefy
11. Matter or the quantity of matter evaporated or passed off in vapor.
12. Composed of molecules that move freely among themselves but do not tend to separate like those of gases; neither gaseous nor solid.
14. The quality of H2o.
16. A large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.

1. The force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
2. The natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
3. The solid form of water.
6. The result of being made more compact or dense.
7. To have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
8. An extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years.
10. Having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
13. The gas form of water.
15. To become liquefied.