Water Crossword

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