Across
- 5. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
- 6. Any underground layer of permeable rock that holds water and allows it to flow
- 7. The total amount of dissolved salts in a sample of water
- 10. Top layer that is not saturated
- 15. The place an organism lives and obtains all the things it needs to survive
- 16. The continuous process by which water moves from the earths surface to its atmosphere and back
- 17. A well in which water rises on its own
- 18. Materials that don't allow water is pass through
- 19. When molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gaseous state
Down
- 1. When surface waters in the eastern Pacific are colder than normal
- 2. The top of the saturated zone
- 3. The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of the winds and currents
- 4. Water that falls to earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
- 8. Materials that allow water to pass through, or permeate
- 9. A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans
- 11. A level where the pores in the ground are saturated with water
- 12. When water is given off through leaves as water vapor
- 13. A climate event that occurs every two to seven years in the pacific ocean
- 14. The pattern of temperature and precipitation typical of an area over a long period of time
