Water systems

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