Across
- 2. a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water
- 4. naturally occurring water that is not salty, and is suitable for consumption if clean or processed.
- 5. a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface which obscures or restricts visibility
- 6. the branch of science concerned with the properties of the earth's water, and especially its movement in relation to land.
- 9. naturally occurring salty water, especially seawater, or water to which salt has been added.
- 11. the number of things—which could be people, animals, plants, or objects—in a certain area.
- 15. the process,condition,or result of being covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
- 16. the ocean are driven by global wind systems that are fueled by energy from the Sun.
- 21. temperature, humidity, airflow, barometric pressure, composition, toxic conditions
- 22. a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
- 26. the exhalation of water vapor through the stomata
- 27. the process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance
- 28. a large body of water surrounded by land.
- 30. the quality or degree of being saline.
- 31. he movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material
- 33. frozen water
- 34. a body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
- 36. are ice sheets that cover the north and south poles and provide ice to other glacial formations.
- 38. current in either a liquid or a gas that is kept in motion by the force of gravity
- 39. tiny drops of water that form on cool surfaces at night, when atmospheric vapor condenses.
- 40. Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas.
- 41. water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
Down
- 1. beneath the surface of the ground.
- 3. the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land.
- 4. a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing.
- 7. a natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another stream.
- 8. a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed be the accumulation and compaction of snow
- 10. the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.
- 12. the nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.
- 13. moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops.
- 14. atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
- 17. the process of turning from liquid into vapor.
- 18. divergence out from a central point, in particular evolution from an ancestral animal or plant group into a variety of new forms.
- 19. water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
- 20. the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow
- 23. a very large expanse of sea,in particular each of the min areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
- 24. disturbances in the surface of the ocean.
- 25. all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
- 29. a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
- 32. a very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
- 35. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
- 37. permeation of a liquid into something by filtration.