Earth's Waters

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Across
  1. 3. water from oceans or seas or both
  2. 5. a storage space for fluids
  3. 7. a large body of water within a body of land
  4. 8. transitional lands between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface, or the land is covered by shallow water
  5. 11. process where rain water soaks into the ground
  6. 14. all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds
  7. 16. a zone of partially saturated soil just above the water table
  8. 18. rain, sleet, snow, or hail that falls to the earth as the result of water vapor condensing in the atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. upper surface of an unconfined aquifer
  2. 2. is a transparent fluid which forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans and rain and is the major constituent of the fluids of organisms
  3. 4. soil, rock or sediment that is frozen for more than two consecutive years
  4. 6. a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea
  5. 9. evaporation of water from plants and leaves
  6. 10. describes the constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. Processes such as precipitation, evaporation, condensation, infiltration, and runoff comprise the cycle.
  7. 12. average length of time that an entity, in this case a water molecule, will remain in a reservoir
  8. 13. is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock
  9. 15. is the measure of all the salts dissolved in water
  10. 17. a geologic formation that holds and yields usable amounts of water
  11. 19. also known as Global Ocean Conveyor (Acronym)