Unit 4 Vocab - Aiden Cheek
Across
- 2. The area subject to flooding during a given number of years according to historical trends.
- 4. Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant.
- 9. Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- 10. The Quantity of water in a stream that passes a given point in a period of time.
- 14. Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.
- 17. Does not contain any salt and can be rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, and wetlands.
- 19. A zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water.
- 20. The upper level of the saturated zone of groundwater.
- 21. The volume of open spaces in rock or soil.
- 22. The large circular surface current pattern found in each ocean.
- 23. The gradual sinking of land. The condition may result from the removal of groundwater or oil, which is frequently instrumental in supporting the overlying rock and soil.
- 24. A chemical intended to kill insects and other organisms that damage crops.
Down
- 1. A mixture of fresh and salt water.
- 3. The movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface.
- 5. The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree celcius.
- 6. Pollution that enters a body of water from a specific source; "You can easily point to it".
- 7. The area of land drained by a river and its branches.
- 8. The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 11. Ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it.
- 12. A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
- 13. The process by which surface water enters the soil.
- 15. Water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin; "You cannot easily point to it.
- 16. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
- 18. An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet