hydrosphere

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Across
  1. 2. An area where the water table is at, near or above the land surface long enough during the year to support adapted plant growth.
  2. 3. the largest bodies of water on Earth
  3. 4. a small channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope—made of small gullies.
  4. 6. a well in which water rises because of pressure within aquifer
  5. 11. a large piece of freshwater ice floating in open waters
  6. 13. a stream feeding a larger stream or a lake
  7. 14. the part of the earth that contains water
  8. 15. a lake that stores water for human use
  9. 16. a wetland dominated by grasses
Down
  1. 1. a wetland dominated by trees
  2. 2. the term used to describe an area that drains into a smaller river or stream.
  3. 5. the water found in cracks and pores in sand, gravel and rocks below the earth’s surface.
  4. 7. Is a rock layer that stores water and allows water to flow through it.
  5. 8. a body of water of considerable size contained on a body of land.
  6. 9. a wetland dominated by peat moss
  7. 10. a large channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope—made of many streams that come together.
  8. 12. any large mass of ice that moves slowly over land