Water Resources

3. Smaller streams
4. Zone or land area where water enters the ground and replenish the groundwater.
10. When this occurs, river flow increases, and the volume of the world ocean increases, resulting to a rise in sea level and reduced land area
11. Soil, rock or sediment that is frozen for more than two consecutive years
14. Ability of the rock or sediments to allow water to pass through it
17. Land areas where water covers the surface for significant periods
18. Process whereby too much soil and sediments are delivered to streams
19. Partly enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from stream meets the saltwater from the sea
20. Flood that occurs when heavy rainfall creates a flood event independent of an overflowing stream

1. Second layer of the ocean, where the temperature of the water decreases rapidly with depth
2. Evaporation of water from the leaves and stems of plants
5. Impermeable rocks where water is trapped and held down by pressure between them.
6. This is a zone in which the spaces between the particles are filled mainly with air.
7. Part of Earth’s subsystem containing the oceans, lakes, streams, underground water, and snow and ice
8. It is only 2. 5% of Earth’s total water
9. Reduction of the mineral content by taking salt out of the seawater to produce freshwater
12. Saltiness of saltwater
13. Process whereby rain that falls into land surface penetrates the soil
15. Streams that are fed by groundwater
16. Narrow, elongated landform separating individual streams within a basin