Water Cycle Probasco

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Across
  1. 3. Water has the unique ability to ____________ substances, which means to break down and become a solution.
  2. 4. In the coldest regions of Earth, water is stored for a long time as ice and _________ snow.
  3. 6. Plants and animals take in water and return it to the atmosphere as vapor (breathing, ____________.
  4. 8. Plants and animals take in water and return it to the _____________ as vapor (breathing, transpiring) or to the soil as liquid (excreting)
  5. 9. Water evaporates from oceans into the atmosphere (air), condenses into clouds, falls as rain or snow, and eventually ___________ to oceans through a drainage system of streams and rivers.
  6. 11. Water evaporates from oceans into the atmosphere (air), ______________ into clouds, falls as rain or snow, and eventually returns to oceans through a drainage system of streams and rivers.
  7. 14. Icebergs break away from glaciers and float in the ocean, slowly melting as they move toward the ___________.
  8. 15. Excreting is the bodily process of discharging waste matter such as urine, sweat, carbon dioxide, or feces from the _______ through the kidneys, skin, lungs, bowels, etc.
  9. 16. It can exist in liquid, vapor, or ___________ (ice) forms.
  10. 17. This word means “the gradual wearing away of something by wind or water; abrasion.”
  11. 19. In addition to clouds, oceans, rivers, and land, living __________ are part of the water cycle.
  12. 24. Water ____________ from oceans into the atmosphere (air), condenses into clouds, falls as rain or snow, and eventually returns to oceans through a drainage system of streams and rivers.
  13. 25. Energy from the sun, which allows __________________, and gravity are the driving forces that power the cycle.
  14. 26. Water’s movement in the watershed, in turn, creates contours of the land by ___________ and sedimentation.
  15. 27. Excreting, as it relates to plants, is to eliminate (waste matter, such as carbon dioxide and salts) through the _________, roots, etc.
  16. 29. Energy from the sun, which allows evaporation, and _______________ are the driving forces that power the cycle.
  17. 30. Water has the ability to ______________ substances from one place to another.
Down
  1. 1. Even ice and snow are in motion; ____________ slowly melt as they move inch by inch.
  2. 2. Water consists of two parts __________and one part oxygen.
  3. 5. Water’s unique physical _______________ enable life to exist on Earth.
  4. 7. A ____________ is the area of land that guides water through small streams toward a major stream or river.
  5. 10. Transpiration is the process of water _________ through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems, and flowers.
  6. 12. This word means “the process of settling or being deposited as a sediment (sediment is an array of particles in water such as dirt, silt, fine sand, rust and organic debris).”
  7. 13. Water is constantly ____________. This movement is called the water cycle.
  8. 18. Water’s movement in the watershed, in turn, creates contours of the land by erosion and ____________.
  9. 20. All living things need water to live because it is essential to their bodily ____________.
  10. 21. The movement of water is greatly influenced by the ________ of land and geographic features such as mountains, valleys, and hills.
  11. 22. Water evaporates from oceans into the atmosphere (air), condenses into clouds, falls as rain or snow, and eventually returns to oceans through a ____________ system of streams and rivers.
  12. 23. Water covers 71 percent of Earth and ____________ 50-70 percent of the weight of all plants and animals, including humans.
  13. 24. Plants and animals take in water and return it to the atmosphere as vapor (breathing, transpiring) or to the soil as liquid (___________).
  14. 28. has an amazing ability to remain liquid in a wide range of normal Earth ________________.