Water properties

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Across
  1. 6. the total amount of water found underground, on the surface and in the atmosphere of a planet.
  2. 7. a measure of the amount of salt in a body of water
  3. 9. a liquid or a gas that dissolves another substance
  4. 11. the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no sunlight;formally defined as the depths beyond which less than 1% of sunlight penetrates
  5. 13. the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc.
  6. 16. when the atoms or molecules of a substance stick to other substances
  7. 18. the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers
  8. 19. atoms and molecules in the surface of a substance exhibit the property of cohesion
  9. 20. the amount of heat that must be absorbed if a certain quantity of liquid is vaporized at a constant temperature
  10. 21. when a liquid to transform into a gas as a result of heating
  11. 22. the journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again
  12. 23. rain, snow, sleet, hail
Down
  1. 1. measure of how much water can flow through a substance
  2. 2. when the atoms or molecules of a substance stick together
  3. 3. mass per unit volume; the amount of matter in a given amount of space
  4. 4. how much heat energy it will take to raise or lower the temperature of an object
  5. 5. the downward movement of fluid, especially in the sea, the atmosphere, or deep in the earth
  6. 8. an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
  7. 10. a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream, river or other body of water.
  8. 12. when a gas to transform into a liquid as a result of cooling
  9. 14. a place where freshwater meets up with salt water; nature’s nursery
  10. 15. an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries much like a bathtub catches all of the water that falls within its sides
  11. 16. a body of rock that can contain water or allow water to flow through it
  12. 17. having a positive and negative end (pole) (i.e. Water is a polar molecule because it has a negatively charged side- the oxygen atom- and a positively charged side- the two hydrogen atoms.)