vocab water unit

2. An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
4. The top of the saturated zone, or depth to the groundwater under Earth’s surface.
6. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
10. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in the underground soil and rock layers.
13. The layer of rocks and soil above the water table in which the pores contain air as well as water.
15. A characteristic of materials, such as clay and granite, through which water does not easily pass.
16. An underground layer of rock or sediment the holds water.
18. Characteristics of a material that connected air spaces, or pores, that water can seep through easily.
19. an abnormal climate event that occurs every two to seven years in the pacific oceans, causing changes in the wind, currents, and weather patterns for one to two years.

1. The average annual conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in the area.
3. A well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer.
5. the total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample.
7. The effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents.
8. The continual movement of water among the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land surface through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
9. The process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves.
11. The total amount of dissolved salts in a water sample.
12. A stream of water that occurs under the ocean.
14. The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.
17. A climate event in the eastern pacific ocean in which surface waters are colder than normal.