water cycle vocab

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Across
  1. 2. the process by which the dissolved mineral salts in water are removed
  2. 5. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
  3. 8. the level below which the ground is saturated with water.
  4. 11. the dissolved salt content of a body of water.
  5. 12. water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it.
  6. 15. currents deep under water from density and temperature
Down
  1. 1. flat, low-lying plain that sometimes forms at the mouth of a river from deposits of sediments
  2. 3. a fan-shaped mass of alluvium deposited as the flow of a river decreases in velocity.
  3. 4. allows water to stick to surfaces
  4. 6. water attracted to water
  5. 7. water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
  6. 9. currents on the surface of the ocean from wind and the sun
  7. 10. an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet
  8. 13. a winding curve or bend of a river
  9. 14. land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.