Earth's Waters Ch1 - Water

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Across
  1. 1. – a layer that contains air as well as water that has soaked into the ground
  2. 4. – allows water to pass through because they have large and connected pores
  3. 8. - the combined force of attraction among water molecules and with the molecules of the surrounding materials
  4. 9. – water that fills the cracks and spaces in soil and rock layers
  5. 10. – a layer where the pores in the ground are filled with water
  6. 11. – the land area that supplies water to a river system
  7. 12. – when plants give off water vapor through their leaves
  8. 14. – does not allow water to pass through easily because it has few or no pores or cracks.
  9. 17. – water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet
  10. 18. – a land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year
  11. 19. - a molecule that has electrically charged areas
Down
  1. 2. – an underground layer of permeable rock that holds water and allows it to flow
  2. 3. – streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river
  3. 5. – the process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gaseous state
  4. 6. – the top of the saturation zone
  5. 7. – a river and all of its tributaries together
  6. 13. - a mixture that forms when one substance is dissolved in another
  7. 15. – the process by which nutrients build up in a lake causing the algae to grow rapidly
  8. 16. – the place where an organism lives and obtains all the things it needs to survive
  9. 18. – the continuous process by which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back driven by energy from the sun and gravity