Ch. 3 What is Your Watershed Address?

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Across
  1. 2. water pollution that comes from a single source or outlet.
  2. 5. a drainage area, generally made up of many smaller units called watersheds; area of land drained to form a river.
  3. 8. water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet.
  4. 9. study of the relationships living organisms have with each other and with their environment.
  5. 10. a stream that flows for most or all of the year.
  6. 12. an underground reservoir of water that is directly connected to the surface and has water levels dependent on relatively constant recharge.
  7. 14. soaked with moisture; having no pores or spaces not filled with water.
  8. 17. a wetland dominated by reeds and other grass-like plants.
  9. 18. all the land from which water drains into a specific body of water.
  10. 20. the 11th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico
  11. 21. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
Down
  1. 1. the watershed, sub-watershed, and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location.
  2. 3. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
  3. 4. the process of particles carried in water falling out of suspension; deposition of silt, sand, rock, and other matter carried by water.
  4. 6. precipitation, snow melt, or other water that flows onto the land but is not absorbed into the soil.
  5. 7. not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable.
  6. 11. a stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.\
  7. 13. river in east Texas, United States. It is about 125 miles long, beginning near Mount Calm and flowing south into the Brazos River
  8. 15. the wearing away of land surface materials, especially rocks, sediments, and soils, by the action of water, wind, or ice; usually includes the movement of such materials from their original location.
  9. 16. the high ground where precipitation first collects and flows downhill in tiny trickles too small to create a permanent channel; where spring water flows from an aquifer and starts streams.
  10. 19. biggest lake in Bryan/College Station.