Across
- 1. water loc ated beneath the Earth's surface, occupying the pore spaces, cracks, and fractures in soil, sand, and rock formations known as aquifers
- 5. the action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning.
- 7. the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land.
- 8. water that collects on the surface of the ground.
- 9. The water table is the upper surface of the saturated zone (phreatic zone) in the ground, separating the unsaturated zone above from the groundwater-filled, saturated soil or rock below.
Down
- 2. the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure, etc.
- 3. An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
- 4. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
- 6. the replenishment of an aquifer by the absorption of water.