Earth's Water Review

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Across
  1. 1. When sediment is put down.
  2. 4. A measurement of suspended solids in water.
  3. 6. Come from rain, snowmelt, or underground springs, the water often holds very few nutrients or pollutants
  4. 8. How fast water moves.
  5. 11. A fan shaped mass of mud and other sediment that forms where a river enters a large body of water
  6. 12. When too many nutrients enter a pond or other body of water.
Down
  1. 2. Streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river.
  2. 3. Is ingested by animals and become concentrated as they move up the food chain.
  3. 5. Land area that supplies water into a river system, also called drainage basin.
  4. 7. Keeps watersheds separated, mountain ranges or ridges of land.
  5. 9. Where a river empties into a larger body of water (usually an ocean or bay)
  6. 10. Area covered with water all or part of the year