hydrosphere vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
  2. 5. combined force of attraction among water molecules and with the molecules of surrounding material
  3. 7. Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
  4. 9. A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid
  5. 11. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
  6. 15. A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year
  7. 16. a process used by some bacteria in the ocean to generate energy with methane and hydrogen sulfide
  8. 17. All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97% of which is in oceans
  9. 20. the amount of matter in an object
  10. 21. Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy.
  11. 22. (of a substance) not easily dissolved
  12. 24. substances in food that your body needs to grow, to repair itself, and to supply you with energy
  13. 25. Water- due to its polarity and ability to dissolve many different solutes
  14. 26. plantlike protists
  15. 28. The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree celsius
  16. 29. the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
Down
  1. 2. A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.
  2. 3. The amount of energy required for the liquid at its boiling point to become a gas
  3. 4. the force that acts on the surface of a liquid and that tends to minimize the area of the surface
  4. 6. of or relating to the sea
  5. 8. Charge differences on opposite ends of a structure.
  6. 10. Does not contain any saltwater and can be rivers, lakes, streams,ponds, and wetlands
  7. 12. The movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface
  8. 13. An attraction between molecules of different substances
  9. 14. a depression on the surface of Earth occupied by water
  10. 18. The change of state from a gas to a liquid
  11. 19. capable of being dissolved
  12. 23. the amount of space an object takes up
  13. 27. molecules sticking to each other.
  14. 29. measure of acidity/alkalinity