Across
- 3. benefits provided by natural systems
- 5. area of land that drain into a particular water body
- 8. any form of water that fall from the cloud and touches the ground
- 10. contaminants that degrade water quality
- 11. Water that flows over the ground surface rather than infiltrating into the soil
- 15. water that is found on the surface of the Earth(rivers, lakes and reservoirs)
- 17. end point where the watershed drains int a larger body of water
- 18. collecting and storing rainwater for future use
- 19. continuous movement of water through the atmosphere, surface, and groundwater.
- 20. process by which changes form a liquid to a gas or vapor
Down
- 1. water stored in aquifers beneath the Earth's surface
- 2. process by which water vapor in the air is changed into a liquid water
- 4. excessive withdrawal of water for various usages
- 6. smaller streams or rivers that flow into a larger one
- 7. strategies to protect and manage water resources
- 9. the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area
- 12. source of a river or stream
- 13. geological formation that can store and transmit groundwater
- 14. process by which water enters the soil and becomes groundwater
- 16. primary pathway through which water flows in a watershed