Across
- 1. When an aquifer is refilled via lakes, rivers, and streams
- 3. Prolonged period in which precipitation is at least 70% lower than average
- 4. Locations in which water could create political and legal conflicts because of needs for cities, irrigation, wildlife, and recreation
- 6. Structure built across a river to control the river's flow
- 7. When an aquifer is refilled via precipitation
- 11. Have very little water and were formed thousands of years ago
- 13. When the land above and aquifer sinks and turns into a sinkhole
- 16. Top of groundwater zone
- 18. To sink
- 19. Created when groundwater from aquifers flows out of the ground
- 21. Usable surface runoff
Down
- 2. Movement of water in the seas, air, and land
- 5. Any lake, river, wetland, or other body of water that water is drained into (one word)
- 8. Aquifer that will be used in the future to support the growing population
- 9. Any lake, river, wetland, or other body of water that water is drained into (two words)
- 10. Underground spaces completely filled with water
- 12. Precipitation that does not infiltrate the ground or return to the atmosphere by evaporation
- 14. Freshwater from precipitation and melted snow that flows across the earth's land surface
- 15. Water resting on bedrock. One of the most important sources of freshwater
- 17. Underground caverns and porous layers of sand, gravel, or rock which water flows through
- 20. Artificial lake behind a dam
