Across
- 2. Strategies to manage water resources via sustainable and clean practices
- 5. Source of a river/stream.
- 8. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches the ground.
- 9. The continuous movement of water throughout the atmosphere, surface, and groundwater.
- 10. Contaminants that degrade water quality, especially improper waste disposal.
- 12. Smaller rivers/streams that flow into a larger one.
- 14. An area of land that drains into a particular water body.
- 16. Water turning into a gas/vapor.
- 17. Benefits provided by natural systems such as clean water and flood regulation.
- 19. Water enters the soil and becomes groundwater.
Down
- 1. Excessive withdrawal of water.
- 2. Water vapor in the air turning into liquid water (clouds).
- 3. Water found on the surface, including rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
- 4. Primary pathway water takes to flow into a watershed.
- 6. Collection of rainwater for future use.
- 7. Water stored in aquifers beneath the Earth's surface.
- 11. Groundwater storage.
- 13. End point in which the watershed drains into a larger body of water.
- 15. The arrangement of physical features that influence an area.
- 18. Water flows over the surface instead of infiltrating into the soil.