Hydrosphere Vocab

1. The process by which surface water enters the soil
7. Is the volume of open space in rock or soil
8. The gradual sinking of land
12. pollution that goes into the water from a spec.ific source
13. The amount of energy required to increase the temp
15. Evaporation of water from leaves and plants
17. Water that does not contain any salt
18. An area subjected to flooding
19. an area of land that drains all the streams and rain fall to a common place or outlet.
20. The large circular surface current pattern found in each ocean
21. Is excessive excess of nutrients in a body of water usually due to runoff
22. ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it
24. water that flows over the ground or surface and doesn't seep into the ground

2. Is a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the groundwater to flow through
3. zone where all open spaces with sediment and rock are completly filled with water
4. the upper level of saturated zone of ground water
5. Water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin
6. The quantity of water in a stream that passes a given point in time
9. the uneven distribution of electric charge in a molecule
10. A chemical intended to kill insects and organisms that will harm crops and plants
11. An area of land drained by a river and its branches
14. Mixture of fresh saltwater water
16. Attraction between molecules of the same substance
23. Attraction of molecules of different substance