CHAPTER 4: WATER RESOURCES
Across
- 2. is a natural vent wherein an area that is usually dry is submerged underwater
- 6. large in lands body of fresh or saline water
- 10. land areas where water covers the surface for significant period
- 11. rain that falls intro the land surface penetrates the soil in a process
- 12. the part of earth subsystem containing the oceans lakes streams snow and rain
- 15. the saltiness of salt water is called
- 17. a shallow wetland around lakes
- 19. cycle water cycle
- 20. moving body of surface water that flows downslope towards sea level
Down
- 1. flooding when water overwhelm in low lying ocean
- 3. a soil rock sediments that is frozen for more that two consecutive years called
- 4. is a permanent body of ice
- 5. vapor evaporated water
- 7. time time the average of length of time
- 8. the change from liquid or solid,to occur
- 9. fresh water found in the rock and soil layers beneath the surface
- 13. is a partly enclosed coastal body of water
- 14. and chlorine ions the major chemical elements present in seawater are
- 16. the total amount of empty pore spaces in the rock
- 18. wetlands with lush trees and vegetation found in low lying