What is Your Watershed Address

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Across
  1. 3. bodies of water, smaller than a gulf and nearly surrounded by land.
  2. 5. a large river basin is located here
  3. 8. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
  4. 9. A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together
  5. 10. 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.
  6. 11. a stream that flows for most or all of the year.
  7. 13. dead leaves and grass on surface of the ground
  8. 16. A process by which nutrients, particularly phosphorus and nitrogen, become highly concentrated in a body of water, leading to increased growth of organisms such as algae or cyanobacteria.
  9. 19. a stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.
  10. 20. a drainage area, generally made up of many smaller units called watersheds; area of land drained to form a river.
Down
  1. 1. has a body of water running 125 miles long
  2. 2. the watershed, sub-watershed, and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location.
  3. 4. 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.
  4. 6. the process of particles carried in water falling out of suspension; deposition of silt, sand, rock, and other matter carried by water.
  5. 7. a bay or drowned valley where a river empties into the sea
  6. 12. water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet.
  7. 14. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
  8. 15. water pollution that comes from a single source or outlet.
  9. 17. a body of water "in the heart of aggieland"
  10. 18. all the land from which water drains into a specific body of water.