Hydrosphere Vocab Crossword

The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
the speed and direction of a moving object
Narrow pathway carved into sediment or rock by the movement of surface water
Wind About; a series of sharp turns in a river
A stream or river that flows into a larger river
A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake
The upper level of the saturated zone of groundwater
the quantity of water in a stream that passes a given point in a period of time
The slope of a stream over a certain distance
The place where a river begins
The volume of open spaces in rock or soil
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
The ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open spaces, or pores.
The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas
Downward movement of water through soil from the surface.
A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid
Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
the change of state from a gas to a liquid
movements of ocean water far below the surface; caused by differences in the density of ocean water
Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface
Horizontal distance between the crests or between the troughs of two adjacent waves
Large, circular ocean current systems that often cover an entire ocean basin
A wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range
the tide with the least difference between consecutive low and high tides
The distance that the wind has traveled across open water
water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
Lowest point of a wave
a lake formed when a meander is sealed off by deposition
Highest point of a wave
The tide with the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides
ocean currents on the top of the water that are driven by wind; circulating cold and warm ocean water that influences climate of land masses
the downward movement of water through pores and other spaces in soil due to gravity