water systems

2. water supply system, infrastructure
6. Water is on and in the Earth. The vast majority of water on the Earth's surface, over 96 percent, is saline water in the oceans.
8. LEVELS Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming,
10. A gas storage hot water system heats water via a gas burner, which is located under the storage tank.
12. A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.
13. Ice sheets are continental-scale masses of ice that rest on land.
14. A water table describes the boundary between water-saturated ground and unsaturated ground
15. The sea is called "dead" because its high salinity prevents macroscopic aquatic organisms, such as fish and aquatic plants, from living in it

1. Familiar examples include rain, snow, clouds, winds, floods, or thunderstorms. Climate, on the other hand, refers to the long-term
3. Microclimates are small regions within a general climate zone that have their own unique climatic conditions.
4. The solid form of water is ice. Ice is less dense than water as when water freezes.
5. Ground water is water underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface.
7. A glacier is a large, perennial accumulation of crystalline ice, snow
9. The freezing point is the temperature at which a liquid turns to a solid. The freezing point at which water a liquid turns to ice a solid is 32°F (0°C).
11. It's a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points