Water systems
Across
- 2. An extreme example of when ice sheets or mountain glaciers increase in size meaning that less water is available is ice _____.
- 4. What state of water is underground water?
- 5. A solid type of water that is a mass of ice and overlying snow that moves slowly down a mountain slope under the influence of gravity is called?
- 10. What has a higher heat capacity than air?
- 11. ____ bodies of water can absorb and release a lot of heat.
- 13. Ice sheets are what type of state of water?
- 14. Which is the bigger polar ice cap?
- 16. What hemisphere has 61% of the ocean?
- 17. What hemisphere has 81% of the ocean?
- 19. In the slides it states that ⅓ of the world’s ______ exists underground than on the surface.
Down
- 1. What is the layer after soil under the water table?
- 3. What is the name of an area with a small localized climate that differs from the climate around it?
- 5. Frozen water is released in liquid and ___ states.
- 6. What does the sun provide to run the water cycle?
- 7. When the amount of fresh water increases, it dilutes the seawater and it reduces ____ of the surrounding water.
- 8. When snow builds up over time, it creates _____.
- 9. What can water hold for a long period of time?
- 12. The heat from the sun passes through the _____, reaching Earth’s surface.
- 15. When glaciers melt they slowly add what type of water into streams, rivers, and lakes?
- 18. 76% of the Earth's water is ____