Water Systems

5. refers to the ability of a material to absorb heat.
7. A place for collecting and storing something
9. When water evaporates from oceans, lakes, and rivers, it forms _____.
10. Earth is surrounded by an ___________ made up of a mixture of gases, including water vapour.
12. used to refer to these big ice masses at poles.
13. Liquid water is found on both _____ and _____ the ground.
16. process of air to water
17. The Sun provides the thermal _____ that drives the whole cycle.
18. small localised climate, different form other climates around it.

1. All of the solid water on earth is ____
2. any frozen or liquid water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back into the earth.
3. A mass of ice which movies slowly, due to gravity.
4. The upper surface of the groundwater zone
6. the process that changes liquid water to gaseous water (water vapour).
8. an area of land in which all bodies of water eventually drain into one big body
11. The water on earth is always changing ____.
13. Underground freshwater reservoir
14. long hollow shafts
15. How much salt is dissolved in ocean water
19. is a particularly large glacier that covers the land.