Water Systems Crossword

1. When mountain glaciers and ice sheets increase in size, it means that even ____ water is available to be part of the world’s oceans,atmosphere, and other water systems.
6. What does ice begin to when a period of global cooling occurs?
11. ___ and large lakes have a moderating effect on the air temperature of coastal area.
12. What is an area of land which all water present (lakes, rivers,...) eventually drains into one large main water body?
15. ____ exists on the Earth in three states - liquid, solid, gas
17. Which type of fresh water is the most abundant?
18. Activities that affect water in one part of the watershed therefore have an effect ______ in the watershed.
19. Which hemisphere has 61% ocean?
20. A _____ is a mass of ice and overlying snow that moves slowly down a mountain slope under the influence of gravity

2. What did the amount of energy absorb depends on?
3. When _______ and precipitation amounts change significantly over time, glaciers and ice sheets are affected, increasing or decreasing in size.
4. What from the Sun that passes through the atmosphere, reaching Earth’s surface?
5. Human activities that put more CO2 and other gases into the atmosphere mean that the heat that would be reflected back into space is blocked. The hat gets trapped above the Earth’s surface. What is this effect?
7. What is an area with a small localized climate that differs from the climate around it?
8. What type of ice covered almost all of Canada?
9. What are built to access aquifer?
10. Water takes longer to heat up, but can hold the heat ____
13. What state does water have a higher heat capacity than?
14. In recent decades, glaciers in many parts of the world have been_____ at a steady rate.
16. What provides the energy required to run the water cycle process?