Fresh and Saltwater Systems Vocab

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