Movement of Fluids Vocabulary

 

 

Attenuate or Attenuation: To stretch or make thin. 

 

Compress or Compression: To squish.

 

Force: A push or pull that gives energy to an object; sometimes causing a change in the motion of the object.

 

Fluid: A substance that flows easily and takes on the shape of a container.

 

Gas:  Phase in which matter has no definite shape or volume.

 

Liquid:  Phase in which matter has no definite shape, but a definite volume.

 

Partial Vacuum: A place with nearly nothing.

 

Vacuum:  A place with nothing.