Groundwater

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Across
  1. 5. species/ These can displace _____________ in a body of water
  2. 6. Pollution/ Water used for cooling in power plants and other industries can create...
  3. 8. the property a rock needs to hold groundwater
  4. 10. a dropping
  5. 13. of saturation/ lies below the water table
  6. 14. pollutants/ The most common kinds of water pollutants
  7. 15. of Depression/ a cone-shaped dip in the water table that is the deepest at the well pipe
  8. 19. Happens as we add something to any resource that makes the resource no longer usable for a particular purpose
  9. 20. The mixture of a solvent with a dissolved substance
  10. 21. a naturally occurring underground space
  11. 23. Wells are named after the French province of Artois, where roman soldiers first observed such wells.
Down
  1. 1. a dripping
  2. 2. The material that keeps water from flowing through it
  3. 3. second largest reserve of fresh water
  4. 4. fringe/ The space in the ground where capillary action takes place
  5. 7. Bacteria/ When water quality managers find _________ in a drinking water supply
  6. 8. To strain, sift, or filter
  7. 9. any substance that pollutes a resource is called a .....
  8. 11. Mixing with air
  9. 12. Fine, hairlike spaces
  10. 16. is a term biologists and medical specialists use to describe contamination by most kinds of intestinal bacteria
  11. 17. Water/ The kind of water that you can use to drink and cook with.
  12. 18. of aeration/ the porous rock and soil above the water table
  13. 22. table/The upper surface of the groundwater reservoir
  14. 24. a substance that dissolves other substances