Water Systems 8PR
Across
- 5. pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin
- 6. to add a fluoride to (something, such as drinking water)
- 7. heat by the movement of a fluid between areas of different temperature.
- 10. area of land where all of the water that is under it, or drains off of it collects into the same place
- 11. the amount of heat need to produce a unit change of temp.
- 13. any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
- 14. any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.
- 15. process by which impurities or particles are removed from a fluid, either a liquid or a gas
- 17. a drainage divide on a continent
Down
- 1. process where material is added to a landform.
- 2. process where natural forces like water, wind, ice, and gravity wear away rocks and soil.
- 3. acceleration of a moving body on or near the Earth as a result of the Earth's rotation
- 4. to sink gradually or to the bottom
- 8. the volume of fluid flowing through an area each second
- 9. water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts.
- 12. adding of chlorine to water to kill germs that may make people sick if they drink or swim in the water
- 14. path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different states.
- 16. the rise and fall of the levels of the ocean