Water on Earth
Across
- 3. stream or smaller river that feeds into a main river
- 5. large-scale ocean circulation that is caused by changes in surface heat and salinity
- 8. removal of groundwater exceeds the rate at which it is replenished
- 9. doesn't absorb water
- 12. excess unabsorbed water from precipitation that enters waterways
- 14. land area that supplies water to a river system
- 15. movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean
- 16. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
- 17. materials that change the temperature of a body of water
- 18. the sinking of land caused by groundwater overdraft
- 19. process of removing salt from water
Down
- 1. lake that stores water for human use
- 2. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface from the clouds
- 4. visible items that pollute water
- 6. where water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at least part of the year
- 7. ridge of land that separates one watershed from another
- 8. lake in the shape of a U that is formed when a river bend is cut off
- 10. the top of the saturated zone
- 11. drinkable water
- 13. area underground where water fills the aquifer
- 16. a system of rotating ocean currents