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Across
  1. 1. A hot spring or fountain that ejects water at various intervals
  2. 3. The flat, low-lying portion of a stream valley subject to periodic flooding.
  3. 6. basin The land area that contributes water to a stream.
  4. 8. The volume of open spaces in rock or soil.
  5. 9. topography An area that has a land surface or topography with numerous depressions called sinkholes.
  6. 10. A depression produced in a region where soluble rock has been removed by groundwater.
  7. 12. The quantity of water in a stream that passes a given point in a period of time.
  8. 16. An imaginary line that separates the drainage of two streams; often found along a ridge.
  9. 17. A form of limestone that is deposited by hot springs or as a cave deposit
  10. 18. A looplike bend in the course of a stream.
  11. 20. Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
  12. 23. A naturally formed underground chamber or series of chambers most commonly produced by solution activity in limestone.
  13. 26. The total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport
  14. 27. A measure of a material's ability to transmit fluids.
Down
  1. 1. Water underground in the zone of saturation.
  2. 2. The constant movement of water among the oceans, the atmosphere, geosphere, and the biosphere.
  3. 4. The movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore spaces.
  4. 5. A flow of groundwater that emerges naturally at the ground surface.
  5. 7. The slope of a stream over a certain distance
  6. 10. channel The course that the water in a stream follows.
  7. 11. levee An elevated landform that parallels a stream and acts to confine its waters, except during floodstage
  8. 13. Rock or soil through which groundwater moves easily.
  9. 14. well A well in which the water naturally rises above the level of the water table.
  10. 15. A stream that empties itself into another stream
  11. 19. table The upper level of the saturated zone of groundwater.
  12. 21. An accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or an ocean.
  13. 22. of saturation Zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water.
  14. 24. An opening bored into the zone of saturation.
  15. 25. Occurs when the discharge of a stream becomes so great that it exceeds the carrying capacity of its channel and overflows its banks.