Across
- 3. small streams
- 10. chemical formula used to represent water's unique structure
- 11. distance from one crest to another, or from one trough to another
- 12. form when water collects in hollows and low lying areas of land
- 15. move and mix water around the Earth, moving slower than surface currents, carrying cold water from poles to equator
- 16. a river and all its tributaries and the land area that supplies water to the system
- 17. is essential for living things to grow, reproduce, and carry out important processes.
- 19. large looped systems of surface currents
- 23. process of solid changing to liquid using heat
- 24. huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land formed in areas where more snow falls each year than melts
- 26. the third largest ocean that is located between India, Africa and the Indonesian Islands
- 30. process by which water moves through the living and non living parts of the environment
- 33. molecules on surface of water cause a tightness
- 36. layer of rock or sediment that holds water and can range in size from a small pond to an area of several states
- 37. area of shallow seawater that receives the most sunlight
- 39. surrounds the Antarctic continent and is covered by ice part of the year
- 41. wind driven currents which affect water to a depth of several hundred meters
- 44. smallest and shallowest ocean that is located near the North Pole and is also covered by ice part of the year
- 45. receives very little sunlight and of it only the blue-green wavelengths
- 46. largest and deepest of the oceans; larger than all of Earth’s continental land mass put together
Down
- 1. water is known as this because many substances dissolve in it
- 2. movement of wind and water to the right or left that is caused by Earth's rotation
- 4. lowest point of wave
- 5. type of hot spring which begins to rise through narrow passages being forced out by heated gases and steam from below
- 6. plants release water to air through leaves
- 7. highest point of wave
- 8. positive hydrogen end of one water molecule attracts the negative oxygen ends of another
- 9. place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock
- 13. largest tidal range and occurs when Earth, the Moon, and the Sun form a straight line
- 14. lowest tidal range and occurs when Earth, the Sun, and the Moon form a right angle
- 18. the amount of energy a wave carries (measured from resting point to crest)
- 19. water that fills the spaces in soil and rock layers
- 20. measure of the mass of dissolved solids in a mass of water
- 21. top of the saturated zone
- 22. allows water to move through materials with pores or narrow spaces
- 25. movement of cold water to the surface to replace warmer water
- 27. broken pieces of glaciers that have fell in the ocean
- 28. plants that photosynthesize are not found here because there is NO light
- 29. half the size of the Pacific, covers about 20% of Earth’s surface
- 31. area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year
- 32. well which water rises because of pressure within an aquifer
- 33. water from a sea or ocean that has an average salinity of 35 ppt
- 34. process of liquid changing to gas at surface
- 35. water droplets in clouds become heavy and fall back to Earth
- 38. number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time
- 40. man made hole drilled below the water table in order to obtain groundwater from an aquifer
- 42. area of permeable rock or soil that is totally filled or saturated with water
- 43. process of gas changing to liquid