Ch. 3 Vocabulary

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