Water Vocabulary Part I
Across
- 2. Man made lake used for: power, recreation, water source, & wildlife
- 3. is the the percentage of the total volume of a rock that has spaces (pores)
- 5. Few or no connected pores, does NOT allow water to travel through
- 9. The river basin closest to Salisbury, NC
- 11. the amount of salt in water
- 12. dam that uses the water it stores to produce electricity
- 14. Underground formation that contains groundwater
- 15. A process of removing salt from ocean water
Down
- 1. A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake
- 4. (Watershed) entire land area that drains into streams that flow into one large river
- 6. water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
- 7. Extremely salt water
- 8. amount of mass per volume
- 10. Rock layers that contain spaces that allow water to travel through
- 13. A large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans