Water Crossword
Across
- 4. The body of water that covers 71% of the surface.
- 5. Atmospheric moisture.
- 6. The rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food.
- 8. The supply of water to land or crops to help growth
- 10. The continuous circulation of water in the Earth-Atmosphere system
- 11. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.
- 15. Natural void in the ground
- 17. An underlying substance or layer
- 18. The force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center
- 19. The process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor.
- 20. A slowly moving mass or river of ice
- 21. A body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
- 24. Caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer
- 25. Having pores or openings that permit liquids or gases to pass through
- 26. Well bored perpendicularly into water-bearing strata lying at an angle, so that natural pressure produces a constant supply of water
Down
- 1. excessive richness of nutrients in a body of water
- 2. Energy emitted by the sun from a nuclear fusion reaction that creates electromagnetic energy.
- 3. A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water
- 7. The rise and fall of sea levels
- 9. The conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid.
- 12. A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.
- 13. A mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km²
- 14. An underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks in rock
- 16. An area that drains water into a specific waterbody
- 22. The chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8
- 23. Partially melted snow.