THE HYDROSPHERE by: Reece Miller 4th hour
Across
- 2. a substance that flows freely but is of constant volume having a consistency like that of water or oil.
- 3. Water is attracted to water.
- 5. occurs when there is more water than land can absorb
- 7. the total amount of water on earth.
- 8. a body of water that flows on Earth's surface.
- 11. a type of energy that is used during the execution of processes of movement.
- 13. (2 words) self supplied water used in suburban or farm areas for domestic and livestock needs.
- 16. a substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill a whole of a container having no fixed shape and no fixed volume.
- 18. Water can move through the membranes in the body.
- 20. sinking of the ground because of underground material movement.
- 21. (2 words) water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
- 22. a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.
- 23. an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water.
Down
- 1. a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles
- 3. (2 words) is an unforseen chain of events that occurs when an event in a system has a negative impact on other related systems
- 4. the watering of soils to enhance crop production in arid environments
- 6. a large body of water surrounded by land.
- 9. (2words)the heat required to raise the temperature of the unit mass of a given substance by a given amount.
- 10. a measure of the ability of water to move through rock
- 12. the amount of water a material can hold.
- 14. The great dissolver.
- 15. a very large expanse of sea in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
- 17. a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility.
- 19. (2 words) The physical weathering of rocks where surfaces within the rock crack and fill with water, freeze and eventually expand