Hydrosphere Crossword Challenge

All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
The top layer of a body of water.
The portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
Water that collects or flows beneath the Earth's surface, filling the porous spaces in soil, sediment, and rocks.
They can be relatively inactive in areas where deposits of sediment slowly collect or active areas where tectonic plates meet.
A shaft or hole sunk to obtain oil, brine, or gas.
A chemical or food that provides what is needed for plants or animals to live and grow.
A place or cavity for storage, for anatomical structures serving as a storage space for fluids.
A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.
Gas in a simple physical solution, as distinguished from gas that has reacted chemically with a solvent or other solutes and is chemically combined.
The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
The largest of Earth's aquatic ecosystems. Examples include salt marshes, inter tidal zones, estuaries, lagoons, mangroves, coral reefs, the deep sea, and the sea floor.
A process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface.
A zone or an area that is a conserved natural habitat where plants and animals can thrive. They are also necessary to minimize the impacts of an adjacent land use.
An area deep within the ocean that serves as other animals and plants habitat.
A microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.
Drinkable.
Refers to microscopic bubbles of gaseous oxygen that are mixed in water and available to aquatic organisms for respiration.
A salt or ester of nitric acid, containing the anion NO3
A measure of hydrogen ion concentration; a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution.
A salt of phosphoric acid.
The cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye.
Refer to organisms, species or community whose characteristics show the presence of specific environmental conditions. Other terms used are indicator organism, indicator plant and indicator species.
The measure of all the salts dissolved in water.
An instrument or device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of a process or quantity.
Refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.
A liquid in which substances (or solutes) are dissolved forming a solution.
Is often a secondary treatment process, used to remove any materials remaining in water.
The conducting, supervising, or managing of something.
A liquid suitable for swallowing.
The mechanism by which an early embryo maintains normal development.
A single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution
Is pollution that enters a waterway from diverse sources. Runoff from precipitation and atmospheric deposition are two of the most common forms of this type of pollution.