Lesson 2: Fresh Water Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a well in which water rises because of pressure within an aquifer
  2. 4. underground rock that holds water
  3. 6. areas covered with a shallow layer of water during part or all of the year.
  4. 7. the land area that supplies water to a river system.
  5. 10. a type of hot spring.
  6. 12. forms when water collects in low-lying regions of land
  7. 14. area of permeable rock or soil filled with water
  8. 16. water that comes from precipitation that soaks into rocks and the ground between soil particles and the spaces in rock layers.
Down
  1. 1. huge masses of ice and snow that move slowly over land
  2. 2. usually contains fresh and salt water.
  3. 5. broken glaciers that have caved into the oceans
  4. 7. man-made hold drilled below the water table to obtain groundwater
  5. 8. water the flows over the ground surface
  6. 9. small streams
  7. 11. a place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock.
  8. 13. contains layers of rock and soil above the water table that hold air and water.
  9. 15. a river and all its small streams