Across
- 11. Water stored beneath the Earth's surface
- 14. water droplets in the atmosphere falling to Earth as rain, hail, sleet or snow
- 15. water that contains waste from homes or industry
- 16. Moisture lost to the atmosphere from open water bodies as a result of warming by the sun
- 17. Built to stop the flow of water to create a reservoir of stored water to be released later
- 18. Cycle Recycling of water with evaporation, condensation, precipitation and infiltration/runoff
- 19. Gaseous mass of air surrounding Earth
- 21. Long-term average weather conditions of a place
- 22. water Groundwater accessed by drilling into the aquifer and pumping water up to the surface
- 23. Height above sea level
- 24. scarcity not having access to enough clean water
- 25. Replenished in a relatively short period of time
Down
- 1. a long period of dry weather when there is not enough water for plants and animals to live
- 2. Hazards Natural hazards resulting from events with the water cycle e.g. floods
- 3. Describing something that is related to water
- 4. Rock that can transport or contain groundwater
- 5. organization (NGO) Organisation of volunteers that work to improve society and environments, separate from government and working as non-profit
- 6. resource Natural material from Earth that is valuable or helpful for life
- 7. A practice that can be continued for future generations to benefit
- 8. off When precipitation flows into streams, rivers, wetlands and lakes
- 9. rainfall Rain occurs on the side of the mountain that carries the clouds
- 10. Day to day events in our atmosphere
- 12. the removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
- 13. Water run-off after a storm
- 15. catchment land where the rain drains to form a water body e.g. lake
- 16. Biological community of interacting organisms within environment.
- 20. a large amount of water flowing over land that is usually dry