The Water Cycle I Brought to you by the Cogix Crossword Wizard

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1 Kinetic energy overcoming hydrogen bonding to make water into water vapor 2 A result of natural evaporation and condensation
3 All land area whose runoff contributes to a particular body of running water 4 Areas where rising warm air and falling cool air make large, circular convection cells
5 Water on the surface of the Earth 6 The kind of cooling resulting from warm air rising into an area of lower pressure
7 Precipitation going into the ground 8 The humidity in terms of what percent of water vapor can be held at that temperature
10 Where water enters an aquifer 9 An arid area downwind from a mountain range
14 Water exiting an aquifer over a fairly wide area 11 The __________ cycle is another name for the water cycle
15 Precipitation flowing along the ground 12 Water with a salt content of 1000 ppm or less
16 Porous material through which groundwater may move 13 Gravitational water being pulled down through soil pores and cracks
17 A result of global rotation and the elsewhere mentioned convection cells 18 Water exiting an aquifer from a fairly narrow opening
19 How water retained by the soil is referred to
20 Hydrogen bonding overcoming kinetic energy to make water vapor into water or ice
21 Water trapped between the permeable soil and impermeable clay or rock layers


Reference

Nebel, Bernard J. and Wright, Richard T. Environmental Science: The Way The World Works. 7th ed. 2000: Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

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