Water Cycle, Surface Water, and Groundwater

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Across
  1. 3. water cannot pass through easily.
  2. 5. where the pores are fully filled with water.
  3. 9. layers that contain air as well as water, and are not filled with water.
  4. 12. water that trickles through spaces between particles of soil and rock and soaks into the ground.
  5. 13. the land area that supplies water to a river system.
  6. 14. water rises on its own because of pressure within an aquifer.
  7. 15. a stream or smaller river that feed into a larger river.
Down
  1. 1. a ridge of land that separates watersheds.
  2. 2. a lake, often created by building a dam, that stores water for human use.
  3. 4. the top of the saturated zone.
  4. 6. any underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that holds water and allows it to flow.
  5. 7. the build up of nutrients in a lake.
  6. 8. materials that allow water to pass through.
  7. 10. the continuous process in which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back driven by energy from the sun and gravity.
  8. 11. the process in which water is give off through leaves as water vapor.