Water Cycle

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Across
  1. 3. What transfer water from land into the ocean and carry large amounts of sand, mud, and gravel with them
  2. 4. Where materials from upstream a river might collect
  3. 10. Why water flows in the direction that it does
  4. 13. A continent that has much of Earth's ice stored in large ice caps
  5. 16. Where energy is either released or absorbed as water changes state
  6. 17. Water that flows over land into streams and rivers
  7. 18. The process by which some of the water on land seeps into the ground
  8. 20. The percentage of Earth that is covered by glaciers
  9. 21. A country that has much of Earth's ice stored in large ice caps
  10. 22. Where energy goes as water evaporates
Down
  1. 1. What moves water around in the oceans
  2. 2. Pieces of glaciers that have broken off and floated out to sea
  3. 5. The particles, other than water, that are transported through the water cycle
  4. 6. The direction that water flows, both on the surface and underground
  5. 7. What happens to the energy in water as it moves from place to place
  6. 8. Another term for glaciers
  7. 9. Water that is found under the surface of the Earth
  8. 11. Each state of water has some of this in it
  9. 12. Where most of Earth's precipitation falls
  10. 14. A natural disaster that may be invoked by the evaporation of water
  11. 15. The process that moves energy and matter through Earth's atmosphere, land, oceans, and living things
  12. 19. What happens to water after it falls to Earth