Watersheds and Sources

2. regulation, and habitat provision.
5. practices and reducing pollution.
6. Contaminants that degrade water quality, often from industrial activities,
8. Strategies to protect and manage water resources, including
9. Smaller streams or rivers that flow into large ones
10. The process by which water enters the soil and becomes groundwater
12. A geological formation that can store and transmit groundwater
13. Collecting and storing rainwater for future use
16. Water that flows over the ground surface rather that infiltrating into the soil
18. and improper waste disposal
19. The source of river or stream
20. Process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water
22. Movement of water through the atmosphere, surface, and groundwater
23. Area of land that drains into a particular water boy.

1. Excessive withdrawal of water for agricultural, industrial, or domestic
3. End point where the watershed drains into larger body of water
4. Benefits provided by natural systems, including clean water,
7. Water stored in aquifers beneath the earths surface
11. Arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area
14. Water that is found on the surface of the earth, like a river, lakes, and reservoirs
15. The process by which water changes from liquid to a gas or vapor
17. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the ground, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
21. Primary pathway through which water flows in a watershed