Ch. 3 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. an portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries
- 6. lasting for a very short time
- 7. called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers
- 8. a source of pollution that comes from widely distributed environmental elements
- 12. an eight digit number to identify your local watershed
- 13. the furthest place in a river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river
- 14. occurring at irregular intervals, not continuous
- 15. a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake
Down
- 1. a localized and stationary pollution source
- 2. begins near mount calm and flows into the brazos river where Brazos, Grimes and Washington converge
- 4. a river or stream that has continuous flow during times of normal rainfall
- 5. the gradual destruction or diminution of something by the environment
- 9. an area of land separating water flow to another river, basin or sea
- 10. a power plant cooling reservoir
- 11. the process of settling or being deposited as a sediment