Fresh and Saltwater Systems Vocab

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