Water Resources Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. allowing liquids or gasses to pass through it.
  2. 6. landscape in a style which required little irrigation.
  3. 7. a barrier constructed to hold back water.
  4. 9. a measure of acidity or basicity of liquid solutions.
  5. 10. pollution, a single identifiable source of air warmer thermal noise or light pollution.
  6. 13. River, second largest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent.
  7. 14. an object that provides nutrients and necessary aid.
  8. 16. a large body of water surrounded by land
  9. 19. make something impure by exposure to a substance.
  10. 20. water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces.
  11. 22. a bacterium or virus that can cause disease.
  12. 23. an instance of turning something aside from its course.
  13. 25. table, the level below which the ground is saturated with water.
  14. 26. an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boat or ships inland.
  15. 27. the supply of water to land or crop to help growth.
  16. 29. a structure created in the ground to access water.
  17. 31. flow or leak slowly through porous material or small holes.
  18. 32. not allowing fluid to pass through.
  19. 34. pollution, pollution resulting from many diffuse sources
  20. 35. water that has been used in the home or part of an industrial process.
Down
  1. 1. an area of land that drain all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet.
  2. 2. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
  3. 3. to become connected.
  4. 5. excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water.
  5. 8. a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.
  6. 11. a point in which water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.
  7. 12. zone, the area in which water enters an aquifer.
  8. 15. a prolonged period of low rainfall leading to a shortage of water.
  9. 17. the salt content in the soil.
  10. 18. designed for something to live in.
  11. 21. the process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed or added.
  12. 24. water, of or found in salt water; living in the sea.
  13. 28. a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea lake or another stream.
  14. 30. a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
  15. 33. water found in lakes and rivers or in ground water.