4.1 Water Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a permeable underground layer of water
- 3. change of a substance from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state
- 5. _____ river is a meandering river located at a low elevation
- 7. measure of the open space in rocks
- 9. all water found underground
- 13. hole in the ground that a forms when an underground cave collapses
- 14. change of a substance from a liquid to a gas
- 16. _____ glacier that covers a large area of land
- 17. structure built to prevent a river from overflowing
- 18. hot spring that periodically erupts
- 20. relationship between the input and output of all the water on earth
- 21. zone of _____ is the underground region where pore spaces contain air and water
- 22. change of a substance from a gas to a liquid
- 24. force of attraction between different molecules
Down
- 1. loss of water by plants
- 4. zone of _____ is the underground region where pore spaces are saturated with groundwater
- 6. natural or artificial lake used to store a regulate water
- 8. _____ river is a river with an increased stream gradient and power to erode
- 10. boundary between unsaturated and saturated ground
- 11. _____ river is a fast-flowing, irregular river with a steep, V-shaped channel
- 12. _____ glacier that is a long, narrow, U-shaped mass of ice that takes shape as ice moves down a mountain and through a valley area
- 15. _____ river is a slow-moving, flat river
- 16. the molecular attraction between particles of the same kind
- 19. force that pulls molecules on the surface of a liquid together to form a liquid
- 23. _____ power is the electricity produced from the power of moving water