Across
- 4. Moisture lost to the atmosphere from open water bodies
- 6. Long-term record of atmospheric conditions
- 9. Rocks and sediments that contain groundwater
- 13. Process whereby the suspended droplets in the atmosphere fall as rain, hail, sleet or snow
- 14. The amount of salt dissolved in water; saline water has high salt content
- 15. Short-term changes in atmospheric conditions
Down
- 1. Balancing social, economic and environmental needs for current and future generations
- 2. Water stored beneath the Earth’s surface
- 3. Lines on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure.
- 5. The deterioration or decline in quality of water, land, or environmental resources
- 6. A dangerous weather event occurring in the atmosphere
- 7. Lack of access to water to meet human needs
- 8. When some precipitation remains in the surface and feeds into streams, rivers, wetlands and lakes
- 10. Replenished in a relatively short period of time
- 11. Maps that use lines to connect points of equal value for a particular variable
- 12. Area of land where rainfall/precipitation flows to a lower elevation