Water warriors

3. - indicates the water’s acid-neutralizing capacity.
8. - is a field that blends mechanical engineering and geology, focusing on how rocks and soil respond to various stresses.
9. - Computer simulations of geological processes are used in oil exploration, mining, and disaster mitigation.
10. - the amount of dissolved salts present in water
12. - remains of prehistoric animals and plants.
14. - its main principle is that the present is the key to the past.
17. - If a small amount of this is found in water, this indicates that the water is clean and essentially free from contaminants.
18. - often referred to as the "age of reptiles"
19. - microscopic plants that consist of photosynthetic pigments.
20. Oxygen - critical water quality parameter
21. - chemical interactions between major geological systems
22. - forces that stretch or squash the Earth's crust, and lead to folds, faults and mountain-building.
24. - occurs when water contains high mineral levels.

1. - commonly caused by the presence of mineral acids, hydrolyzed salts, and carbon dioxide.
2. - excessive plant and algal growth due to the increased availability of one or more limiting growth factors needed for photosynthesis.
4. - study the Earth itself to investigate various processes occurring on and in the Earth
5. - weathering process where acidic rain water slowly reacts with many common rock-forming minerals to form clay and dissolved salts.
6. - an instrument used by determining the degree to which particles suspended in the solution decrease the intensity of light lost as a beam is passed through it.
7. - bubbles formed by volcanic gases in lava, that become "frozen in" as the lava cools.
11. - essential for life, used heavily in agriculture and fertilizers. (i.e. Nitrogen and Phosphorous)
13. - of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake, also of or relating to an earth vibration, and is used to study the Earth's interior.
15. - Mountains that contain limestones composed of marine animal shells that lived in a shallow ocean over 400 million years ago
16. - are single-celled plants that can ingest food and reproduce at rapid rates if the water’s pH, food supply, and temperature are ideal.
23. - measures how well a sample of water or similar solution can carry or conduct electrical currents.