Hydrosphere Word Search
Across
- 5. store and transmit groundwater
- 7. the flow of water over land surfaces
- 8. Capable of being dissolved, usually in a liquid
- 11. process by which water vapor is released from the surfaces of plants
- 14. table upper surface of the zone of saturation
- 15. circulation (great ocean conveyer belt) a large- scale movement of ocean water driven by differences in temperature and salinity
- 19. the process by which organisms absorb or take in substances
- 22. the area of land where all the water that falls in it drains off to a common outlet
- 23. a term used to describe materials that allows fluids to pass through them easily
- 24. a large underground chamber in a cave
- 25. a natural flowing watercourse
- 26. chemical compounds formed from the reaction of an acid and a base
- 27. Nino warm phase of the El Nino- Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- 28. heat the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius
- 29. of Aeration region of soil and rock above the water table where the pores are partly filled with air and water
- 30. vast body of salt water that covers most of the Earth's surface
Down
- 1. Nina a climate pattern that occurs in the Pacific Ocean
- 2. water that is stored underground in soil and rock formations
- 3. continuous, directed movement of seawater
- 4. all of the water on Earth
- 6. the action of entering or gaining access to an organization or place
- 9. a natural source of groundwater that flows to the surface
- 10. the measure of the concentration of dissolved salts in water
- 12. (molecule) uneven distribution of charges
- 13. of Saturation area beneath the Earth's surface where groundwater completely fills the pore spaces in soil and rock
- 16. resource natural resource that replenishes itself over a short period
- 17. tension the liquid's ability to resist external force due to cohesive forces among its molecules
- 18. materials that do not allow fluids to pass through
- 20. the tiny spaces or voids within the rock material that can hold fluids, such as water or oil
- 21. ocean the interconnected system of Earth's saltwater oceans