Watersheds and Water Sources Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Strategies to manage water resources via sustainable and clean practices
  2. 5. Source of a river/stream.
  3. 8. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the ground.
  4. 9. The continuous movement of water throughout the atmosphere, surface, and groundwater.
  5. 10. Contaminants that degrade water quality, especially improper waste disposal.
  6. 12. Smaller rivers/streams that flow into a larger one.
  7. 14. An area of land that drains into a particular water body.
  8. 16. Water turning into a gas/vapor.
  9. 17. Benefits provided by natural systems such as clean water and flood regulation.
  10. 19. Water enters the soil and becomes groundwater.
Down
  1. 1. Excessive withdrawal of water.
  2. 2. Water vapor in the air turning into liquid water (clouds).
  3. 3. Water found on the surface, including rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
  4. 4. Primary pathway water takes to flow into a watershed.
  5. 6. Collection of rainwater for future use.
  6. 7. Water stored in aquifers beneath the Earth's surface.
  7. 11. Groundwater storage.
  8. 13. End point in which the watershed drains into a larger body of water.
  9. 15. The arrangement of physical features that influence an area.
  10. 18. Water flows over the surface instead of infiltrating into the soil.