water pollution
Across
- 2. particles in a flowing fluid that are transported along the stream bed
- 3. u-shaped y of after that forms when a wider meander from the main stem of a river is cut off. distinctive, curved shape
- 6. a diposite of clay, silt, sand, an gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta
- 7. any tributary stream thet runs parallel to and withing thr floodplain pf a larger river for considerable distancce, before eventually joining it
- 9. a valley formed by fasy flowing water
- 10. previous v-shaped valleys carved from, downstream rivers with more discharge. Some are previously glaciated mountainous areas.
- 13. a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream or river. the larger, or parent, river is called the mainstream.
- 14. section of a river where the bed has steeo graient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.
Down
- 1. swampy depressed area of a floodplain between the natural levee and the edge of the floodplain
- 4. embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river
- 5. two streams or rivers merge always points downstream
- 8. sediment carried by a river which settles slowly-almost never touching the stream bed.
- 11. area of land that separates water flowing to different river or seas
- 12. river flowing over gently sloping ground begins to curve back and forth across the landscape