Water Systems

1. A ______ is an area of land where all the water drains into one large main water body
5. What is the upper surface of the groundwater zone called?
8. What type of water exists underground?
9. What forms hold the most fresh water
11. The ______ are well known for the winter storms they help create.
14. If the path of a hurricane takes it over land, what could happen?
17. The last great expansion of ________ ended about 10,000 years ago.
19. What is an area with a small localized climate variation that differs from the larger climate area around it called?

2. What is the ability of a material to absorb heat called?
3. What is a mass of ice called?
4. What water state is transpiration?
6. What kind of storm starts out as a thunderstorm over warm ocean water?
7. Has the Antarctic ice sheet been growing or shrinking in recent years?
10. What takes longer than air to absorb heat?
12. the _____ is an underground water reservoir
13. What’s the word that refers to how much salt dissolves in water?
15. What is it called when concentrated gases get trapped in the atmosphere and block heat from getting reflected back into space?
16. When a period of warming occurs, Earth's glaciers and ice sheets begin to disappear. What is the period called?
18. What was the name of the ice sheet that covered all of canada 10,000 years ago?
20. Name one of the states the frozen water in shrinking glaciers release as.