Earth's Hydrosphere

4. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest ____________, where freshwater and salt water meet.
9. Step of the water cycle that follows evaporation.
12. Excess amounts of this gas are absorbed by the ocean and converted into carbonate rocks.
14. In a groundwater diagram, the top of the saturated zone is called the water _______.
15. Feature of the seafloor created at a convergent plate boundary.
16. Unusual warming of surface ocean water in the eastern Pacific Ocean due to changes in the trade winds.
17. Flat land along banks of a river where sediments are deposition after a heavy rain.

1. Term given to giant circulating surface currents in the ocean.
2. Feature at the mouth of a river that is formed by deposition.
3. River in Virginia that empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
5. Body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
6. Algae in the ocean are the main source of this gas in our atmosphere.
7. The ability of water to flow through soil or pores in rock.
8. Heat from the ocean can be transmitted to the atmosphere through this energy transfer.
10. Percentage of water on Earth on that is freshwater.
11. Vertical movement of deep, cold, nutrient rich water to the surface.
13. Deep ocean currents are created when neighboring bodies of water differ in _________.
15. The daily period rise and fall of ocean water levels caused by the moon and sun.