Chapter 4: Water Resources

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Across
  1. 1. evaporated water
  2. 8. natural event wherein an area that is usually dry is submerged under water
  3. 10. body of water where freshwater from stream meets the saltwater from the sea
  4. 11. gradual sinking of land
  5. 12. vast body of saline water
  6. 13. a permanent body of ice
  7. 15. gaining stream
  8. 16. layer of the ocean where temperature decreases rapidly with depth
  9. 19. smaller streams
  10. 20. land area where water covers the surface for significant periods of time
Down
  1. 2. water-bearing rock layers
  2. 3. large inland bodies of fresh or saline water
  3. 4. total amount of empty pore spaces in the rock
  4. 5. soil, rock, or sediment frozen for two consecutive years
  5. 6. taking salt out of seawater to produce freshwater
  6. 7. impermeable rocks
  7. 9. narrow elongated landform separating individual streams in a basin
  8. 14. surface water flood
  9. 17. saltiness of seawater
  10. 18. moving body of surface water that flows downslope