Vocab Week 11

2. Wetness in the atmosphere
6. Plankton, especially those small in size, that obtain energy by photosynthesis
7. The watery layer of the earth's surface
9. Any naturally occurring inorganic material
11. Frozen seawater
14. Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials
15. A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface
16. A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock
17. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season
18. The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable

1. a farming technique that involves plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines
3. A broad glacial mass with a relatively flat surface
4. Cut down on
5. A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
8. The process of melting or fusion
9. Flexible, weak material
10. To break down and reuse component materials
12. Underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks
13. An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel