Across
- 2. a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects
- 4. Buffers vegetated areas next to water resources that protect water resources from nonpoint source pollution
- 6. Attempts to discover order in nature
- 9. Artificial lake created where a stream is dammed
- 10. Physical, chemical, and biological changes that take place after a body of water receives an input of nutrients from erosion or runoff
- 12. Structure built across a river to control its flow or create a reservoir
- 14. Broad/Diffuse area where pollutants enter bodies of water/air
- 17. surface water in abnormal quantity resulting from heavy falls of rain or snow
- 20. Relatively pure water containing few dissolved salts
- 21. Combination of 2+ atoms of same or different chemical elements
- 22. The smallest unit of an element that can exist still containing the unique characteristics of that element
- 24. Water that does not penetrate the ground or return to the atmosphere
- 25. Single, Identifiable source that discharges pollutants into the environment
Down
- 1. Water flowing off the land into bodies of surface water
- 3. The speed of something in a given direction
- 5. Land area that delivers water, sediment, and dissolved substances
- 7. The measure of heat energy required to increase the temperature of a unit
- 8. the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land
- 11. Flat valley floor next to a stream channel
- 13. a 3D view of an object cut in half
- 15. The volume of water to pass a given point on a stream bank per unit of time
- 16. areas of unique soil that have water all, or part of, the year
- 18. Water that sinks into the soil and is stored in aquifers
- 19. when an area does not get enough water, they suffer a ________
- 23. form the base of the aquatic food chain