Environmental Science Vocabulary Challenge

2. the measure of dissolved salts in water
3. any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water.
4. a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier.
8. is water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface.
10. the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.
12. a continuous body of salt water that is contained in an enormous basin on Earth's surface.
13. a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.
14. a large body of salt water.
16. a small island.
17. an area of land that is usually saturated with water
20. is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.
22. a body of water, confined within a bed and banks, and detectably flowing.
23. the boundary between the unsaturated zone and the saturated zone underground.
24. an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean.
25. An overflow of water onto normally dry land.

1. the process of removing salts and other minerals from water
3. a part of the water cycle and occurs when water moves into the ground from the surface and begins to soak into the soil and rock layers underneath.
5. an extremely large mass of ice which moves very slowly, often down a mountain valley.
6. the continuous, predictable, directional movement of seawater driven by gravity, wind (Coriolis Effect), and water density
7. an area that contains a chain or group of islands scattered in lakes, rivers, or the ocean
9. something that drains or flows off, as rain that flows off from the land in streams.
11. a large man-made body of water.
15. are very long-period waves that move through the ocean in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun.
18. a body of water surrounded on all sides by land.
19. a large area of land that drains into a body of water.
21. are steep depressions in the deepest parts of the ocean