Fresh and Saltwater Systems Vocab

4. Ocean ____ are the deepest parts of our oceans.
6. The measurement of how transparent a liquid is; directly related to the amount of suspended particles.
8. Material (like sediment) being added to a landform.
11. The removal of salt
12. A circular movement of water particles that causes a change in pattern that moves along the water surface.
14. The combined calcium and magnesium content of water.
16. A purification technique pushing water through a membrane against the normal movement.
18. Drinkable water.
19. Non drinkable water.
23. Specific structures or behaviors that increase an organism's chance of survival or reproduction.
24. Technique for separating solutions that involves boiling and condensation.
26. The processes involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
28. The area that collects and deposits water for a given region.
30. The process by which soil and rock are removed from the Earth's surface.
32. The undersea extension of a continent which can stretch for miles out to sea.
33. A ______ tide is just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water.
34. A ____tide is a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
35. An area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point.

1. Separation of solids from water that is used in Lifestraw (TM)
2. Water that does not contain salt.
3. The measure of the acidity.
5. 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.
7. A crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel.
9. A usually triangular mass of sediment, especially silt and sand, deposited at the mouth of a river.
10. A measurement of the number of different species of organisms in a particular place/area.
13. The daily rise and fall of water due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
15. The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
17. The measure of the concentration of salt in water.
20. A large area of salt water between continents.
21. Water that flows through a "channel" in the surface of the ground.
22. The non drinkable water contained in the oceans.
25. These help plants grow but when there is too much in water creates algae blooms.
27. An underground layer where the material contains water.
29. A large moving body of ice.
31. This gas dissolved in water is necessary for fish and many aquatic invertebrates to live in the water