HYDROLOGY VOCABULARY

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Across
  1. 7. Shelf the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean. The continental shelf is geologically part of the continental crust
  2. 8. Slope the slope between the outer edge of the continental shelf and the deep ocean floor
  3. 11. the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution
  4. 13. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch
  5. 16. Vent an opening in the sea floor out of which heated mineral-rich water flows
  6. 17. water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it
  7. 18. the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream
  8. 20. the process of turning from liquid into vapor
  9. 21. an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas
  10. 22. off there is more water than land can absorb. The excess liquid flows across the surface of the land and into nearby creeks, streams, or ponds
Down
  1. 1. Ridge - an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics
  2. 2. Source Pollution a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution
  3. 3. water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
  4. 4. Rise a sediment underwater feature found between the continental slope and the abyssal plain
  5. 5. a seamount with a flat top
  6. 6. Source Pollution caused when rainfall or snowmelt, moving over and through the ground, picks up and carries natural and human-made pollutants, depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters and ground waters
  7. 9. land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land
  8. 10. (of a plant or leaf) the exhalation of water vapor through the stomata
  9. 12. Zone - the area where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides.
  10. 14. Plain an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 metres and 6,000 metres.
  11. 15. the flora and fauna found on the bottom, or in the bottom sediments, of a sea, lake, or other body of water
  12. 19. any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans