The Hydrosphere - Week 1

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Across
  1. 1. An increase in this has lead to greater global demand for water
  2. 6. The largest use of human water
  3. 9. A hydrological store which holds 0.7% of the total volume of water
  4. 12. A human activity that reduces interception and increases runoff
  5. 13. The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
  6. 14. The name of a river that flows through this country
  7. 15. This increases evaporation from the soil
Down
  1. 2. The rock beneath an aquifer must have this feature
  2. 3. ... time - water volume/transfer rate
  3. 4. This acts as a wildlife barrier to migrating fish
  4. 5. An over-exploited river in the Middle-East
  5. 7. What percentage of water is stored in land ice?
  6. 8. The movement of water through the xylem of a plant
  7. 10. This store has a residence time of 4000 years
  8. 11. A measure of the proportion of a rock’s volume that is space and could therefore hold water