Water Systems Crossword!
Across
- 2. What does the climate of a small area that differs from its surrounding climate define?
- 4. What word does a glacier that starts to melt, due to warmer temperatures, described by?
- 6. What does an underground freshwater reservoir refer to?
- 10. What process are glaciers and ice sheets exposed to?
- 12. What is the name for a mass of ice and overlying snow that moves down a slope?
- 14. What name is given to tornadoes that form over water?
- 15. In what process does water evaporate from plant leaves?
- 17. What does a large section of an ice shelf that breaks off form?
- 19. What horizontal lines measure distance north or south of the equator?
- 20. What word describes a period of warmer climate between two glacial periods?
Down
- 1. What word does an effect/a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat known as?
- 3. What does a hurricane start from?
- 5. What indicates the amount of salt dissolved in water?
- 7. What imaginary line goes around the middle of a planet?
- 8. What does any natural discharge of water from soil or rock onto the land surface refer to?
- 9. What is another name for a "water drainage basin"?
- 11. What pole has been losing glaciers the most in recent decades?
- 13. What popular name is given to a severe type of storms?
- 16. What is the name of an ice sheet that covered all of Canada 10,000 years ago?
- 18. What name got assimilated to "Canada's worst hurricane"?