Across
- 3. temperature at which dew forms
- 5. Water with 16.5 ppt or more of salt
- 7. All the communities of living things on Earth compose
- 9. process through which plants release water.
- 11. Water with less than 3.0 parts per thousand
- 12. continuous movement of water and many processes
- 15. tasteless, odorless, and colorless, chemical compound : H2O
- 18. amount of water vapor in the air
- 19. form of evaporation in which water vaporizes from ice without becoming water first.
- 20. substance that dissolves a solute.
- 22. gaseous layer that encompasses the earth.
- 23. bonding of water molecules to each other
- 24. all the water on Earth, whether liquid, solid, salty, or fresh
Down
- 1. ability of a liquid to move upward against the force of gravity
- 2. water that contains salt
- 4. process by which water leaves the surface of the earth and becomes water vapor.
- 6. change in the state of matter to a denser phase.
- 8. is moisture from the atmosphere that is returned to the earth.
- 10. mixture of solutes and solvents.
- 13. downward movement of water through the soil
- 14. mixture of salt water and fresh water
- 16. is the bonding of water molecules to other substances.
- 17. substance that is dissolved in a solution.
- 21. soil and rock that make up the earth’s crust.