Across
- 3. it refers to how much salt dissolved in water
- 4. the upper surface of the groundwater zone
- 8. the ability of a material to absorb heat
- 10. an area of land in which all water drains into one water body
- 12. a long body of water
- 14. the envelope of gases surrounding the Earth or another planet
- 15. crucial to life on Earth
- 17. massive bodies of surface salt water
- 18. the name of one state of water
- 19. the underground fresh water reservoir
Down
- 1. a severe type of storm that starts out as a thunderstorm over warm ocean water
- 2. an area with a small localized climate
- 5. the area where water fills all the air spaces in the soil and in the tiny cracks in the rocks
- 6. the state of the atmosphere at a place and time
- 7. a particularly large glacier that covers the land
- 9. big ice masses at the poles
- 11. a mass of ice and overlaying snow that more slowly down a slope over the influence of gravity
- 13. a place for collecting and storing something
- 15. long, hollow shafts down into aquifers to obtain fresh water
- 16. the process of water evaporation from plant leaves