Across
- 5. Water moves from lakes, rivers, and moist soil to the atmosphere (liquid to gas)
- 7. Water that flows along the ground into bodies of water like lakes, rivers and oceans
- 12. A structure that blocks and helps regulate water flow
- 14. layer that contains spaces that water passes
- 16. Areas where groundwater naturally rises to the surface
- 18. A hole humans dig into an aquifer to reach groundwater
- 20. The build up of nutrients in a body of water
- 22. Freshwater that is found underground
- 23. layer that has few or no pores
- 25. Water returns to earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, ect.
- 26. diversion Process of moving water from its source to where humans use it
Down
- 1. Water vapor changes from a gas to a liquid
- 2. Largest area of water use
- 3. Pollution that can come from petroleum products, pesticides, heavy metals and more
- 4. The presence of disease-causing organisms in water
- 6. Water that is relatively pure with few dissolved salts
- 8. Water sticks to itself
- 9. The release of water vapor through plant leaves
- 10. Artificial lakes that store water for human use
- 11. The process of removing salt from seawater
- 13. A permeable later that holds groundwater
- 15. All the land that supplies water to a particular river system
- 17. Smaller rivers that flows into larger rivers
- 19. The world's largest aquifer
- 21. Sudden explosions of algae growth
- 24. All of the water above and below Earth's surface and in the atmosphere
