Hydrosphere Vocabulary

1. Cycle / The process in which water flows to and it keeps going on and on and on.
3. Nino / complex series of climate changes affecting the equation Pacific region and beyond every few years.
6. / A stream that flows to a larger stream or other bodies of water.
12. Web / A bunch of food chains put together.
13. Solvent / A substance that dissolves with most chemicals.
15. / The envelope of gases surrounding the earth and other planets.
16. Environmental Stressors / The cause of something happening directly at the direction.
18. / All the water on earth's surface, like lakes and rivers
19. / The saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body.
20. / Property of water that makes it's molecules that attract other molecules.

2. Basin / Portion of land drained by a river and it's tribute.
4. / The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
5. / How easily liquid and gas passes through something.
6. / A measurement of telling how hot or cold something is.
7. / The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.
8. / When freshwater meets the salty water.
9. / The property at having poles or being polar.
10. Heat of Vaporization / The heat absorbed per unit mass of a given material at its boiling point that completely converts two materials to a gas.
11. / The degree of compactness of a substance.
14. Environmental Stressors / The cause of something happening not exactly at the direction.
17. / Property of water that makes its molecules attracted to each other.
21. thermal Vents / An opening in the seafloor out of which heated mineral-rich water flows.