Jase's Science Vocabulary - Water Units Crossword

The place where an organism lives and obtains all the things it needs to survive.
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rack layers.
The continuous process by which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back, driven by energy by the sun and gravity.
The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gaseous state.
Water given off through the leaves as water vapor.
Water that falls to the Earth as rain, snow, hail, or sleet.
Materials that have large and connected pores that allow water to pass through or permeate.
Water cannot pass through easily.
Layers that contain air as well as water, so they are not saturated, or filled, with water.
The top of the saturated zone – where the ground is saturated with water.
Any underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that holds water and allows it to flow.
Water rises on its own because of pressure within an aquifer.
The total amount of dissolved salts in a sample of water.
SOund NAvigation Ranging
A volcanic mountain rising from the ocean floor that doesn’t reach the surface.
A long, deep valley on the ocean floor through which old ocean floor sinks back toward the mantle.
A gentle sloping, shallow area that extends outward from the edge of each continent.
A broad area covered with thick layers of mud and silt.
Long chains of mountains on the ocean floors.
A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans.
The effects of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents.