Across
- 4. source pollution, any single identifiable source of pollution from which pollutants are discharged,
- 5. water, water that collects on the surface of the ground
- 6. table, the level below which the ground is saturated with water.
- 7. zone, refer to those areas where water infiltrates through the permeable rock and sediment
- 10. the excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen
- 14. land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.
- 17. plain, an area of low-lying ground adjacent to a river, formed mainly of river sediments and subject to flooding.
- 19. an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
- 20. of or found in freshwater; not of the sea
- 22. source pollution, (NPS) pollution is caused when rainfall or snowmelt,
- 23. the concentration of toxins in an organism as a result of its ingesting other plants or animals in which the toxins are more widely disbursed.
- 24. barrier constructed to hold back water
- 25. the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
Down
- 1. when there is more water than land can absorb
- 2. diversion, the removal or transfer of water from one watershed to another.
- 3. a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
- 6. is an excavation or structure created in the ground by drilling to access liquid resources, usually water.
- 8. landscape (an area) in a style that requires little or no irrigation
- 9. gradual accumulation of substances
- 11. (of a material or membrane) allowing liquids or gases to pass through it
- 12. water that has been used in the home, in a business, or as part of an industrial process.
- 13. the process of removing salt from seawater
- 15. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
- 16. the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects
- 18. water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
- 21. system, a system or group of rivers so united that the water carried by the minor component streams finally unites in one body of flowing water
