CHAPTER 4: WATER RESOURCES

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