CHAPTER 4: WATER RESOURCES
Across
- 2. and chlorine ions the major chemical elements present in seawater are
- 4. land areas where water covers the surface for significant period
- 5. wetlands with lush trees and vegetation found in low lying
- 8. the saltiness of salt water is called
- 12. vapor evaporated water
- 14. time time the average of length of time
- 15. the change from liquid or solid,to occur
- 18. fresh water found in the rock and soil layers beneath the surface
- 19. is a natural vent wherein an area that is usually dry is submerged underwater
- 20. a shallow wetland around lakes
Down
- 1. flooding when water overwhelm in low lying ocean
- 3. rain that falls intro the land surface penetrates the soil in a process
- 6. is a partly enclosed coastal body of water
- 7. the total amount of empty pore spaces in the rock
- 9. large in lands body of fresh or saline water
- 10. the part of earth subsystem containing the oceans lakes streams snow and rain
- 11. moving body of surface water that flows downslope towards sea level
- 13. cycle water cycle
- 16. is a permanent body of ice
- 17. a soil rock sediments that is frozen for more that two consecutive years called