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