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  1. 2. Large frozen raindrops that typically fall during thunderstorms. Can grow in size up to golfball-sized, baseball-sized or even bigger!
  2. 5. This planet is often called "the water planet" or "Blue Planet.
  3. 9. Term for when water falls from cloud in any of its various forms (rain, snow, hail, etc..)
  4. 12. An overflow of water onto normally dry land
  5. 15. A barrier constructed to hold back water, raise its level, form a reservoir, and generate electricity.
  6. 16. a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater
  7. 21. Layer(s) of gasses surrounding a planet.
  8. 23. area of land that is saturated with water or covered by water for at least part of the year
  9. 25. Smaller than an ocean and typically partially surrounded by land
  10. 26. _____ currents are the ocean current caused by wind that flows near the top of the water.
  11. 27. The ability of a rock (or soil) to allow water to flow through it.
  12. 29. The name of the largest freshwater lake in the United States
  13. 32. When water changes from gas to a liquid.
  14. 34. huge masses of ice and snow that forms where snow gathers faster than it melts and flows along with water over an area of land.
  15. 35. artificial lake formed by damming a river.
  16. 37. _____water is water that is found beneath Earth's surface.
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  1. 1. ___ water makes up roughly 97% of Earth's water such as the water found in the oceans.
  2. 3. Solid form of water
  3. 4. The process of watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth.
  4. 6. water that flows over the land from precipitation or melting of snow or ice.
  5. 7. Second longest river in the world.
  6. 8. a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere.
  7. 10. Longest river in the world
  8. 11. The water _____ is the level below which the ground is saturated with water.
  9. 13. A _____ Flood is a rapid type of flooding.
  10. 14. H2O
  11. 17. large body of moving water that flows downhill in a channel.
  12. 18. The Water _____ is processes which water circulates between the Earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land via precipitation and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
  13. 19. Ice ___ are glaciers that cover an area larger than a single valley.
  14. 20. The area of land that is drained by a river.
  15. 22. Term for water that is safe to drink
  16. 24. a long period of lower than normal rainfall for a particular region.
  17. 25. Frozen precipitation that falls in light crystalized flakes.
  18. 27. largest ocean in the world
  19. 28. Water that precipitates in a liquid form
  20. 30. when water changes from liquid to gas.
  21. 31. Only about 2-3% of Earth's water is this type of water.
  22. 33. the regular rising and falling of Earth’s surface waters twice a tidal day as a result of the Moon’s and Sun’s gravity.
  23. 36. Number of students enrolled in this class.