Water pollution
Across
- 3. u shaped body of water that forms when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off
- 6. a curve in a lake that has significant turning
- 7. area of land tended to flooding
- 11. particles of debris that are at the bottom of a water source, river,stream etc
- 12. cause harm to organisms through water and pollution
- 14. straight fast rivers that are deeper than their width
- 15. start of a curve in a river that can be isolated
- 16. no steep gradient rivers that are slower than young ones
- 18. sediment carried by a river which settles slowly
- 19. off stream of water that leads to a bigger source
- 20. areas of water that separates water into other streams or rivers
- 21. swampy depressed area of a floodplain, saturated ground
Down
- 1. sections of a river where the bed has a steep gradient
- 2. valley formed by fast flowing water
- 4. previous v shaped valleys carved from downstream rivers with more discharge
- 5. embankment to prevent the overflow of a river
- 8. runoff,meltage and groundwater pollution
- 9. pipes,factories, drainage pipe, all come from what type of pollution
- 10. not very steep rivers that have low gradients
- 13. any tributary stream that runs parallel to and within a floodplain
- 17. a deposit of clay,silt,gravel and sand left by flowing streams