Chapter 15 Vocabulary Earth's Water
Across
- 7. measure of the cloudiness of water,from sediments, microscopic organisms, or pollutants
- 8. evaporation of water from plants
- 11. quality chemical, biological,and physical status of a body of water
- 12. cannot be traced to one location
- 13. heat amount of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a material by 1°C
Down
- 1. can be traced to one location
- 2. nitrogen based compound often used in fertilizers
- 3. process of a gas changing to a liquid
- 4. collection of data from a distance
- 5. cycle natural processes by which water continually moves throughout the hydrosphere
- 6. all the water on and below Earth’s surface and in the atmosphere
- 9. process of a liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the liquid
- 10. organism that is sensitive to environmental conditions and one of the first to respond to changes