Across
- 3. type of lake created by sediment deposition in a meander
- 4. Absorption of water by living organisms
- 6. The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil
- 7. only internally draining, or endorheic, watershed in the United States
- 8. a smaller body of water that joins the main river
- 10. an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet
- 13. The exhalation of water vapor through the stomata of a plant or leaf
- 14. largest hydrologic unit in the United States
- 16. Any form of condensed water that falls from the atmosphere
- 17. a wedge-shaped landform created from sediment deposits at the mouth of a river
- 18. body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater
Down
- 1. scientific study of water on Earth
- 2. drainage divide at the headwaters of a National Hydrologic Unit
- 5. area where fresh and salt water meet
- 9. measure of the ease of flow
- 11. measure of ability to hold water
- 12. the point at which a tributary meets the main river
- 14. bends in a river or stream that slow water flow
- 15. Any ground that remains completely frozen for two or more years