Earth and Space
Across
- 1. A hot spring or fountain that ejects water at various intervals
- 3. The flat, low-lying portion of a stream valley subject to periodic flooding.
- 6. basin The land area that contributes water to a stream.
- 8. The volume of open spaces in rock or soil.
- 9. topography An area that has a land surface or topography with numerous depressions called sinkholes.
- 10. A depression produced in a region where soluble rock has been removed by groundwater.
- 12. The quantity of water in a stream that passes a given point in a period of time.
- 16. An imaginary line that separates the drainage of two streams; often found along a ridge.
- 17. A form of limestone that is deposited by hot springs or as a cave deposit
- 18. A looplike bend in the course of a stream.
- 20. Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
- 23. A naturally formed underground chamber or series of chambers most commonly produced by solution activity in limestone.
- 26. The total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport
- 27. A measure of a material's ability to transmit fluids.
Down
- 1. Water underground in the zone of saturation.
- 2. The constant movement of water among the oceans, the atmosphere, geosphere, and the biosphere.
- 4. The movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore spaces.
- 5. A flow of groundwater that emerges naturally at the ground surface.
- 7. The slope of a stream over a certain distance
- 10. channel The course that the water in a stream follows.
- 11. levee An elevated landform that parallels a stream and acts to confine its waters, except during floodstage
- 13. Rock or soil through which groundwater moves easily.
- 14. well A well in which the water naturally rises above the level of the water table.
- 15. A stream that empties itself into another stream
- 19. table The upper level of the saturated zone of groundwater.
- 21. An accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or an ocean.
- 22. of saturation Zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water.
- 24. An opening bored into the zone of saturation.
- 25. Occurs when the discharge of a stream becomes so great that it exceeds the carrying capacity of its channel and overflows its banks.