Earth: The Water Planet
Across
- 2. area of permeable rock or soil that is saturated with water
- 6. man-made hole drilled below the water table in order to obtain groundwater from an aquifer
- 7. place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock
- 10. type of hot spring which begins to rise through narrow passages being forced out by heated gases and steam from below
- 11. 97% of Earth's water
- 13. Continuous process by which water moves through the living and nonliving parts of the environment
- 14. 3% of Earth's water
- 15. broken, or glaciers that have calved into ocean
- 16. molecules on the surface of water that cause a tightness
Down
- 1. layers of rock and soil above the water table that are not able to be saturated
- 3. water is known as the _____ because many substances dissolve in it.
- 4. Comes from precipitation that soaks into the ground
- 5. Huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land
- 8. well which water rises because of pressure within an aquifer
- 9. A river and all its tributaries
- 12. layer of rock or sediment that holds water
- 13. Three common types are marshes, swamps and bogs