Water Resources

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Across
  1. 3. practice of designing landscapes to reduce or eliminate the need for irrigation
  2. 7. (river), second longest river in North America
  3. 10. links among ecosystem components
  4. 11. not permitting the passage of a fluid through the pores
  5. 12. freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream or river.
  6. 14. structure built across a stream, a river, or an estuary to retain water
  7. 16. The removal, or transfer of water from one watershed to another.
  8. 19. water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the surface.
  9. 20. flush is a moist or wet place where water reaches the earth's surface from an underground aquifer.
  10. 22. infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host
  11. 23. chemicals that accidentally or deliberately enter the environment
  12. 25. acidity, or alkalinity of a solution
  13. 26. used to carry water from one location to another
  14. 28. underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock
  15. 30. gradual increase in the concentration of phosphorus, nitrogen, and other plant nutrients in an aging aquatic ecosystem
  16. 31. prolonged period of dry weather caused by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a serious water shortage
  17. 33. (pollution), pollution resulting from many diffuse sources
  18. 34. underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks in rock
Down
  1. 1. water containing less than 1,000 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids
  2. 2. water resource formed when the side of a hill intersects a flowing body of groundwater at or below the local water table
  3. 4. how much salt is in water
  4. 5. artificial lake where water is stored
  5. 6. naturally occurring solutions containing large concentrations of dissolved, inorganic ions.
  6. 8. a hole drilled into the ground to access water contained in an aquifer
  7. 9. area in which water enters an aquifer
  8. 13. ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity.
  9. 15. physical material that humans need and value such as land, air, and water.
  10. 17. artificially apply water
  11. 18. used water
  12. 21. an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir
  13. 24. any relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin
  14. 27. Region below the Earth's surface in which groundwater fills all the pores of material.
  15. 29. property of rocks that is an indication of the ability for fluids to flow through rocks
  16. 32. (pollution), any contaminant that enters the environment from an easily identified and confined place.