Hydrosphere Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Water/H2O | A substance that every living organism needs to survive |
Hydrosphere | made up of water found above or under earths surface |
Tributary | |
watershed | Area of land that drains in to a stream,river,lake or any kind of body of water |
Surface water | |
Ground water | water located below earths surface |
Aquifer | Rock layer that collects and stores water |
Water cycle | Continuous movement of water between earths surface and its atmosphere |
Evaporation | Process by which liquid changes into a gas |
transpiration | water vapor is released through tiny openings in plant leaves |
Condensation | process by which gas changes to a liquid |
Precipitation | water that falls to earths surface in the form of rain,sleet,hail or snow |
Infiltration | |
Runoff | water that flows over land without sinking into the ground |
Porosity | |
Density | |
Universal solvent | |
Ocean | 70% of earths surface is ocean water |
Estuary | Body of water in which fresh water and salt water meet and mix |
Brackish water | water that is dirty |
Marine Ecosystem | place in which marine animals live in a oceanic habitat |
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