Water Resources

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