science definitions 1
Across
- 1. Glaciers that cover vast areas of land
- 4. measured by the quantity of something.
- 5. laying down or depositing of sediments
- 6. erosion
- 7. technique for separating solutions that involves boiling and condensation
- 8. fresh water located underground
- 10. testing water quality to see if I is potable
- 12. water that is safe for humans to drink
- 14. eroded rock fragments and soil carried by water or wind
- 15. amount of dissolved salts in water
- 16. measure of the amount of substances besides water in a water sample; description of how pure a water sample is.
- 19. area of land that drains into one main lake or river
- 20. form from rocks and gravel that build up along the sides and at the end of the glacier
- 21. form when parts of the glacier melt
- 22. daily change in water level of the oceans
Down
- 2. highest point of land on a continent
- 3. in water, circulation movement of water particles that causes a change in pattern that moves along the water’s surface; the pattern can move over long distances but the water particles do not
- 4. measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity
- 9. characteristics used to describe a stream or river; these include volume and rate of flow, slope and shape of bed
- 11. large moving body of ice
- 13. an artificial lake
- 17. the solid outer part of earth
- 18. a formation of long wavelength ocean surface waves