Water Cycle and Extended

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Across
  1. 1. the kind of cloud represented by the prefix "cirro-" or "cirrus"
  2. 3. water that does not get absorbed by the ground, returns to surface reservoirs
  3. 4. Cooling of air as it rises in altitude and loses pressure
  4. 9. "fair weather" clouds: ___ humilis
  5. 10. the layer of the atmosphere in which we live and weather takes place
  6. 12. the collection of gases surrounding our planet
  7. 13. heating of water to convert it into a gaseous state
  8. 14. most of this is trapped in glaciers and ice caps
  9. 16. lens-shaped cloud resembling UFO
  10. 18. means "rain" in Latin
  11. 19. the process of cooling water vapor until it becomes liquid again
  12. 20. any storage space for a substance, natural or manmade
Down
  1. 2. the process of water absorption into the ground
  2. 5. a layer of porous rock that is a groundwater reservoir
  3. 6. the type of cloud that occurs across all altitudes
  4. 7. the general result of water vapor condensation in the atmosphere
  5. 8. when water falls back to earth from clouds
  6. 11. Ninety-seven percent of all water on earth is this type
  7. 15. when solid ice converts instantaneously into water vapor
  8. 17. water that is stored underground in the soil or other reservoir