Across
- 3. Some of the Earth's most diverse and valuable ecosystems on earth
- 4. driven by global wind systems that are fueled by energy from the sun
- 7. a local wind system characterized by a flow from land to water late at night.
- 9. steady or firm attachment
- 10. a near-horizontal gravity movement of water from the recharge area to surface outlets into the receiving waters
- 11. the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial pacific
- 12. result from differences in water density
- 15. and area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single or larger body of water
- 17. water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface
- 19. Any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth
- 20. a shift in winds that often causes a very rainy season or a very dry season
- 21. a measurement of how much something changes as you move from one region to another
- 22. the process where water vapor becomes liquid
- 23. the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water, called saline water
Down
- 1. precipitation that runs off the landscape
- 2. The quality of being porous (filled with tiny holes)
- 5. any wind that blows from a large body of water toward or onto a landmass;
- 6. the process by which the dissolved mineral salts in water are removed
- 8. a warming of the ocean surface, or above average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
- 13. the act or process of sticking together tightly
- 14. a constantly moving system of deep ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity
- 16. the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere
- 18. the sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration
- 19. The ability of a substance to allow another substance to pass through it