water systems
Across
- 4. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater
- 6. an area of land in which all the water present
- 8. is a piece of freshwater ice more than 15 m long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
- 9. a mass of ice
- 11. a line dividing land whose drainage flows toward the given stream from land whose drainage flows away from that stream.
- 14. is a piece of freshwater ice more than 15 m long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
- 15. are areas where water covers the soil or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year
- 16. an area with a small localized climate that differs from the climate around it
- 18. is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops.
- 19. is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation.
- 20. builts to access water
- 21. a body of water partly surrounded by land.
Down
- 1. is natural and effective at removing many toxins from the water, such as volatile organic compounds and chlorine, without the use of chemicals or stripping the water of salts and minerals.
- 2. a process that involves loss of water vapour through the stomata of plants
- 3. a thing that starts from thunderstorms over the ocean
- 5. capacity the ability of a material to absorb heat
- 7. is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock.
- 10. is an underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks in rock
- 12. is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km² of land area.
- 13. a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.
- 17. drains into one large main water body