Unit 4 Vocab Gavin Pfund

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Across
  1. 2. Does not contain any salt
  2. 4. Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
  3. 8. the process by which surface water enters the soil
  4. 9. the volume of open spaces in rock or soil
  5. 12. The upper level of the saturated zone of groundwater
  6. 15. the amount of water in a stream that passes a given point in a period of time
  7. 17. the uneven distribution of electrical charge in a molecule. They have positive and negative ends, like a magnet.
  8. 19. pollution that enters a body of water from a specific source
  9. 22. A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.
  10. 23. A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
  11. 24. excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water
Down
  1. 1. Mixture of fresh and salt water
  2. 3. zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water
  3. 5. water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
  4. 6. water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin
  5. 7. An attraction between molecules of different substances
  6. 10. A chemical intended to kill insects and other organisms that damage crops
  7. 11. The area subject to flooding during a given number of years
  8. 12. an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet
  9. 13. Attraction between molecules of the same substance
  10. 14. an oceanic circulation pattern driven by differences in temperature and salinity (saltiness)
  11. 16. The gradual sinking of land.
  12. 17. Ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it
  13. 18. The area of land drained by a river and its branches.
  14. 20. the large circular surface current pattern found in each ocean
  15. 21. The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree celcius