Intro to Water Vocabulary
Across
- 1. Mouth of a freshwater river meets the ocean
- 4. Pollution Too many nutrients in the water causes too much algae
- 6. Highest point of the watershed
- 7. Impermeable layer prevents water from flowing from one aquifer to another
- 9. Liquid to gas
- 12. Area of land that drains into a particular body of water
- 16. Water runs along the land's surface
- 17. Layer of permeable, saturated rock and the slow-moving water in its pores
- 19. Gas into liquid
- 20. What is most groundwater used for?
- 21. Cycle Never ending water cycle
Down
- 2. Water leaves the plant
- 3. Nonliving
- 5. Formed at higher elevations where water collects to form trickling streams and waterfalls
- 8. Water seeps into soil
- 10. Pollution Erosion of soil into rivers and lakes
- 11. Pollution Too many microorganisms in water and can make you sick
- 13. Living
- 14. Any form of water falling
- 15. Saturated area below the water table
- 18. Study of living things and their environment