Fresh and Saltwater Systems Vocab

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  1. 4. A large moving body of ice.
  2. 7. A substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.
  3. 8. The measurement of how transparent a liquid is; directly related to the amount of suspended particles.
  4. 9. A usually triangular mass of sediment, especially silt and sand, deposited at the mouth of a river.
  5. 11. Water that flows through a "channel" in the surface of the ground.
  6. 13. An underground layer where the material contains water.
  7. 14. Non drinkable water.
  8. 15. Material (like sediment) being added to a landform.
  9. 19. The removal of salt
  10. 21. The process by which soil and rock are removed from the Earth's surface.
  11. 23. An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
  12. 24. The daily rise and fall of water due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
  13. 26. A ____tide is a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
  14. 27. Ocean ____ are the deepest parts of our oceans.
  15. 29. A tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water.
  16. 30. A very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic.
  17. 33. The non drinkable water contained in the oceans.
  18. 34. In water: a circular movement of water particles that causes a change in pattern that moves along the water surface.
  19. 35. Drinkable water.
  20. 36. Water that does not contain salt.
  21. 37. Ice Cap A polar ice cap is a high latitude region of a planet or natural satellite that is covered in ice.
  22. 38. Specific structures or behaviours that increase an organism's chance of survival or reproduction.
Down
  1. 1. Separation of solids from water that is used in Lifestraw (TM)
  2. 2. This gas dissolved in water is necessary for fish and many aquatic invertibrates to live in the water
  3. 3. An area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point.
  4. 5. A measurement of the number of different species of organisms in a particular place/area.
  5. 6. Daily change in water levels of the oceans.
  6. 10. Technique for separating solutions that involves boiling and condensation.
  7. 12. The processes involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
  8. 16. A crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel.
  9. 17. The combined calcium and magnesium content of water.
  10. 18. The undersea extension of a continent which can stretch for miles out to sea.
  11. 20. The measure of the acidity.
  12. 22. A large area of salt water between continents.
  13. 25. The measure of the concentration of salt in water.
  14. 28. Movement of water through a membrane of an area of lower water concentration to one of higher water concentration.
  15. 31. A small mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed a liquid.
  16. 32. The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.