Water Cycle, Surface Water, and Groundwater
Across
- 3. water cannot pass through easily.
- 5. where the pores are fully filled with water.
- 9. layers that contain air as well as water, and are not filled with water.
- 12. water that trickles through spaces between particles of soil and rock and soaks into the ground.
- 13. the land area that supplies water to a river system.
- 14. water rises on its own because of pressure within an aquifer.
- 15. a stream or smaller river that feed into a larger river.
Down
- 1. a ridge of land that separates watersheds.
- 2. a lake, often created by building a dam, that stores water for human use.
- 4. the top of the saturated zone.
- 6. any underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that holds water and allows it to flow.
- 7. the build up of nutrients in a lake.
- 8. materials that allow water to pass through.
- 10. the continuous process in which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back driven by energy from the sun and gravity.
- 11. the process in which water is give off through leaves as water vapor.