Across
- 5. An ______ is a particularly large glacier that covers the land.
- 7. The upper surface of the groundwater zone is called?
- 10. When a period of warming occurs, Earth's glaciers and icesheets begin to disappear. These times are called?
- 12. This underground freshwater reservoir is called?
- 14. refers to the ability of a material to absorb heat.
- 15. The oceans are massive bodies of surface salt water, with an average depth of 3.2 km
- 18. an area with a small, localized climate variation that differs from the larger climate area around it.
- 19. A heat gets trapped right above Earth’s surface is called?
- 20. How much salt is dissolved in water
Down
- 1. Found both above and below the ground
- 2. This non-stop circulation is called?
- 3. Area of land where all the water eventually drains into one main water body, such as a stream,river, wetland, lake, or ocean.
- 4. When a period of global cooling occurs, Earth’s temperatures decline, and ice begins to accumulate. This results in glaciers and ice sheets expanding in size.
- 6. A glacier is a mass of ice and overlying snow that moves slowly down a mountain slope under the influence of gravity.
- 8. The term ___________ is sometimes used to refer to these big ice masses at the poles.
- 9. The floating ice is called?
- 11. It reaches a wetland, river, lake, or ocean, or flows to the surface in what is called?
- 13. The area where water fills all the air spaces in the soil and in the tiny cracks in the rock are called?
- 16. Most rural homes and small farms drill ____ (long, hollow shafts) down into aquifers to obtain fresh water.
- 17. Large sections of an ice shelf that break off are called?