Science Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle By: Aryanah Brown

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Across
  1. 2. Tide a tide that occurs every full and new moon
  2. 3. the movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface
  3. 5. Ridge the longest mountain chains
  4. 8. the amount of dissolved salt in the ocean
  5. 9. Tide a tide that occurs every first and third quarter
  6. 12. the process of any form of water falling from the sky
  7. 15. the highest point in a wave
  8. 16. the constant change in sea level
  9. 17. the process of evaporation in plants
  10. 19. the process when water falls from a surface because of the Earth's gravity
Down
  1. 1. the process in which a gas forms into a liquid
  2. 4. the process in which the sun's energy heats up water and turns water in to a gas/water vapor
  3. 6. Current a current that occurs far below the surface and is very cold and salty
  4. 7. a subsurface current that is near shore and that pulls objects out to sea
  5. 10. Plain a large,flat, almost level area in the deep ocean basin
  6. 11. Valley a long narrow valley that forms where tectonic plates separate
  7. 13. the process of which material is loosened, dissolved, or worn away and transported to another place by wind, water, ice, or gravity
  8. 14. Water Cycle the non-stop movement of water moving from the atmosphere, the land, and the ocean
  9. 17. the lowest point in a wave
  10. 18. Current a current that occurs near the surface and is less dense than deep currents