Across
- 2. water that is not flowing; a pond or lake.
- 3. a wetland dominated by reeds and other grass-like plants.
- 8. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
- 10. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
- 11. 11th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles long.
- 13. the watershed, sub-watershed, and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location.
- 14. water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet.
- 17. a drainage area, generally made up of many smaller units called watersheds; area of land drained to form a river.
- 19. A river that is 125 miles long.
- 20. an area in which the water contains low or no dissolved oxygen causing a condition known as hypoxia.
Down
- 1. round hollows in the ground in the Southern High Plains of the United States that fill with water when it rains forming shallow temporary lakes or wetlands.
- 4. 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.
- 5. all the land from which water drains into a specific body of water.
- 6. water pollution that comes from a single source or outlet.
- 7. the process of particles carried in water falling out of suspension; deposition of silt, sand, rock, and other matter carried by water.
- 9. 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.
- 12. a stream that flows for most or all of the year.
- 15. a stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.
- 16. Biggest lake in Bryan, Tx.
- 18. animal plankton, including single-celled and complex multicellular organisms.