Earth's Water Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• estuary : where the tide meets the stream.
• marsh : an area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.
• levee : an embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.
• neritic : shallow part of the ocean above the drop-off of the continental shelf, approximately 200 meters
• reservoir : a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
• permeable : allowing liquids or gasses to pass through it.
• impermeable : not allowing fluid to pass through porosity,.
• swamp : an area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.
• wetland : areas where water covers the soil,
• aquifer : a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
• sublimation : transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state.
• tributary : a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.
• transpiration : occurs when plants take up liquid water from the soil and release water vapor into the air from their leaves
• aphotic : the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no sunlight.
• intertidal : zone of the ocean where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides
• groundwater : water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
• precipitation : rain, snow, sleet, or hail that fall
• condensation : water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
• evaporation : the process of turning from liquid into vapor.
• confluence : the junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width.
• salinity : the amount of dissolved salts that are present in water.