Across
- 3. – The total stream discharge of water, including both surface and subsurface flow.
- 5. – One of the multitudinous features that, taken together, make up the surface of the Earth. It includes all broad features, such as plain, plateau, and mountain, and all the minor features, such as hill, valley, slope, canyon, and alluvial fan.
- 7. – The cycling movement of water through the stages of evaporation from oceans, to condensation into clouds, to the precipitation on Earth, and back to the oceans through rivers and streams.
- 9. – The changing from a liquid to a solid
- 12. – The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth.
- 16. – Dihydrogen monoxide. The most valuable natural resource and the most limiting factor in crop production.
- 17. – Water within the Earth that supplies wells and springs.
- 21. – Land areas that are flooded during all or part of the year.
- 23. – Water on the surface, as lakes and rivers, in contrast to that underground.
- 24. – The movement of solid, liquid, and gaseous water through the atmosphere. Without this movement, the water evaporated over the ocean would not precipitate over land.
- 26. – Land area that is especially wet, usually with evergreens present, and covered with moss and peat; surface provides a spongy walk or sticky mud.
- 27. – The science and study of dealing with the properties, distribution, and circulation of water.
- 29. – A measurement of the salt concentration in water; affects the survival of organisms living in aquatic environments.
Down
- 1. – Water falling to Earth from the atmosphere as rain, hail, sleet, snow, or other moisture received from clouds.
- 2. – Water having more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.
- 4. – Water that is not high in salt content, with less than 0.2 percent salinity. This may not be the same as potable (drinking) water.
- 6. – The process of turning a vapor into a liquid.
- 8. – Living in water.
- 10. – The passage of water through a plant from the roots through the vascular system to the atmosphere.
- 11. – The characteristic of a solid becoming a gas, or a gas becoming a solid without becoming a liquid, such as the conversion of snow to water vapor and the formation of frost.
- 13. – The downward movement of water through the soil in response to the pull of gravity.
- 14. – Land area covered continuously or nearly continuously by standing water with trees or shrubs growing in the water. The water tends to be stagnant and usually dark and non-translucent.
- 15. – The changing from a solid to a liquid.
- 18. – The changing of a liquid to a gas.
- 19. – Any standing body of inland water.
- 20. – An area bounded by geographic features in which precipitation is absorbed in the soil to form groundwater, which eventually emerges to become surface water and ultimately drains to a particular watercourse or body of water
- 22. – Wetland continuously or frequently covered by freshwater, tidal water, or standing saltwater. Marshes do not rely on rainfall for their water supply, and soft-stemmed plants are the dominant plant type.
- 23. – Flowing water from a natural or artificial channel.
- 25. – A stream of water-bearing the surface flow and ground flow from higher to lower ground.
- 28. – The addition of sediment, as by flowing water.