Water Cycle Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Evaporation from snow and ice, the direct conversion from solid to vapour
  2. 5. Evaporation through the stomata of plants
  3. 6. The source of energy that drives the water cycle
  4. 7. Transformation of water to gas
  5. 10. The transfer of heat or matter by the flow of a fluid, especially horizontally in the atmosphere or the sea.
  6. 11. A body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater.
  7. 12. The general direction water flows during precipitation
  8. 13. The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.
  9. 16. The water that flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into groundwater or evaporating.
  10. 17. The drops of water that form on cool surfaces during the night
Down
  1. 1. Water vapour reforming as liquid droplets
  2. 2. Loss of water from the soil both by evaporation from the soil surface and by transpiration from the leaves of the plants growing on it.
  3. 3. Water falling to earth as snow or rain
  4. 8. The amount of water vapour in the air
  5. 9. The layer above the earth that water enters when it evaporates
  6. 14. Atmospheric moisture directly crystallized on the ground and on exposed objects.
  7. 15. Melted water from snow