Ch. 3 What is your watershed Address
Across
- 3. River in east Texas, USA, beginning near Mount Calm and flowing south into the Brazos River
- 5. Water flowing just below ground, beneath the dry stream bed, lasting for a very short time.
- 6. The process of settling or being deposited as a sediment
- 7. Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land
- 9. The wearing away and movement of solid material such as soil, mud and rock
- 10. A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake
- 11. A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward
- 13. A stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall
- 14. The watershed, sub-watershed, sub-sub-watershed, etc., in which you live
- 18. materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
- 19. The 11th-longest river in the United States of America at 1,280 miles from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw,
Down
- 1. Pollution comes from a single source that people can identify (or point to), such as a pipe connected to a specific place
- 2. Water flowing just below ground, beneath the dry stream bed
- 3. Comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet
- 4. A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
- 8. A power plant cooling reservoir in Brazos County, 5 miles northwest of Bryan
- 12. Resource (e.g. strains, species, populations, stocks, assemblages) which can be legally caught by fishing
- 15. The portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries
- 16. All the land from which water drains into a specific body of water
- 17. At the top of the watershed is the land