Across
- 5. path of water through an environment
- 10. water can reside for a century
- 12. evaporates 496000 km of water from earths surface each year
- 14. where most of earths water is stored
- 15. corals expel their algal partner and then die
- 16. reenters the atmosphere or enters lakes and streams
- 17. areas of mineral-rich water and specially adapted species
- 19. areas of saturated ground
- 20. wooded wetlands
- 23. shallow wetlands flooded regularly with salt water
- 24. continually evaporates water
Down
- 1. low narrow sandy islands that form parallel to a coastline
- 2. best known marine ecosystems
- 3. algae or tiny, free-floating photosynthetic organisms
- 4. shallow ecosystems in which the land surface is submerged part of the year
- 6. acount for 86% of total evaporation
- 7. bays where rivers empty into the sea, mixing fresh water and salt water
- 8. condenses over land in the form of rain, snow, or fog
- 9. depressions in a rocky shoreline that are flooded at high tide but retain some water at low tide.
- 11. emit the moisture they consume through respiration and precipitation
- 13. the 40,000 km carried back to the ocean by surface runoff
- 18. sharp temperature boundary
- 21. distribute water vapor around the globe
- 22. wetlands without trees