earth science

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Across
  1. 2. The saltiness of water
  2. 6. A mass of glacial land ice
  3. 7. The second layer of the ocean
  4. 9. The land area where water enters the ground and replenish the ground water
  5. 10. Sediment that is frozen for more than two consecutive years
  6. 15. Land areas where water covers the surface for significant periods
  7. 16. The process in which liquid water changes into vapor
  8. 17. The process that ice can directly transform into water vapor
  9. 18. inland bodies of fresh or saline water
  10. 19. The movement of water around the earth's surface
  11. 21. An aquifer in which groundwater is free to rise up to its natural level
Down
  1. 1. The total amount of empty pore spaces in the rock
  2. 3. The water trapped and held down by pressure between rock above the aquifer
  3. 4. Permanent body of ice
  4. 5. Passageway where particles and dissolved substances are transported
  5. 8. The total amount of water in the planet
  6. 11. A moving body of surface water that flows downslope toward sea level because of gravity
  7. 12. The are where the ground water where the groundwater flows out of the aquifer
  8. 13. The average length of time spent by water molecule in a reservoir
  9. 14. Fresh water found in the rock and soil layers beneath the surface
  10. 20. The large bodies of fresh or saline water