Water Cycle
Across
- 3. What transfer water from land into the ocean and carry large amounts of sand, mud, and gravel with them
- 4. Where materials from upstream a river might collect
- 10. Why water flows in the direction that it does
- 13. A continent that has much of Earth's ice stored in large ice caps
- 16. Where energy is either released or absorbed as water changes state
- 17. Water that flows over land into streams and rivers
- 18. The process by which some of the water on land seeps into the ground
- 20. The percentage of Earth that is covered by glaciers
- 21. A country that has much of Earth's ice stored in large ice caps
- 22. Where energy goes as water evaporates
Down
- 1. What moves water around in the oceans
- 2. Pieces of glaciers that have broken off and floated out to sea
- 5. The particles, other than water, that are transported through the water cycle
- 6. The direction that water flows, both on the surface and underground
- 7. What happens to the energy in water as it moves from place to place
- 8. Another term for glaciers
- 9. Water that is found under the surface of the Earth
- 11. Each state of water has some of this in it
- 12. Where most of Earth's precipitation falls
- 14. A natural disaster that may be invoked by the evaporation of water
- 15. The process that moves energy and matter through Earth's atmosphere, land, oceans, and living things
- 19. What happens to water after it falls to Earth