Across
- 4. A shoreline area where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean.
- 6. A form of nutrient pollution.
- 7. a flow of water from the ground at a place where the surface of the land dips below the water table.
- 9. An increase in nutrients in a lake or pond, occurring naturally or as a result of pollution, which causes increased growth of algae.
- 12. The continuous movement of water on Earth, through its atmosphere and in the living things on Earth.
- 17. Pollution with a widely spread source that can’t be tied to a specific point of origin.
- 18. Allows substances to easily pass through.
- 19. A system that uses underwater sound waves to measure distance and locate objects.
- 21. Areas of land that water drains into when the ground is saturated or impermeable.
- 22. The vertical movement of deep water up to the surface bringing up nutrients from the deep ocean allowing animals to thrive.
- 25. The yearly rising and sinking of cold and warm layers in a lake.
- 26. Does not allow substances to pass through.
- 27. The amount of salt in a substance.
- 30. a mass of floating ice that broke away from a glacier
Down
- 1. An opening in the sea floor from which heated water rises and mixes with the ocean water above.
- 2. The flat or gently sloping land that lies submerged around the edges of a continent and extends from the shoreline out to the continental slope.
- 3. Passed in the U.S. in 1972, this law focused regulation on industrial waste and water contamination as well as waste water treatment.
- 5. table The highest part in the ground that is saturated, or completely filled with water.
- 8. The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries.
- 10. The movement of water from the surface to greater depths carrying oxygen down allowing animals to thrive.
- 11. Water that contains dissolved salts and other minerals.
- 13. water that collects and is stored underground.
- 14. A well in which water flows upward to the surface naturally because it is under pressure.
- 15. Water that is not salty and has little or not taste, color, or smell.
- 16. pollution Pollution that enters water from a specific source that can be identified.
- 20. A measure of the clarity of water that depends on the amount, size and composition of suspended matter.
- 23. A ridge or continuous line of high land from which water flows in different directions.
- 24. The ratio of the mass of a substance to the volume of the substance. (mass/volume)
- 28. An underground layer of permeable rock that contains water.
- 29. The process of removing salt from ocean water.
