Ch.3 What is Your Watershed Address

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Across
  1. 3. water pollution that comes from a single source or outlet.
  2. 4. a large stream 20 minutes from college station home of the rattlers
  3. 8. a large stream running through college station and surrounding areas
  4. 9. a stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.
  5. 12. regions of the country characterized by a severe lack of water hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
  6. 13. water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet.
  7. 14. the watershed, sub-watershed, and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location.
  8. 15. quality the fitness of a water source for a given use, such as drinking, fishing or swimming.
  9. 16. 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.
  10. 18. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
Down
  1. 1. a large body of standing water next to college station
  2. 2. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year.
  3. 3. a stream that flows for most or all of the year.
  4. 5. The process of exposing water to air, allowing air and water to mix and water to absorb the gasses in air.
  5. 6. 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.
  6. 7. water that flows or collects beneath the Earth’s surface in saturated soil or aquifers.
  7. 10. the process of particles carried in water falling out of suspension; deposition of silt, sand, rock, and other matter carried by water.
  8. 11. water with a salt content lower than about 0.05%; for comparison, sea water has a salt content of about 3.5%
  9. 17. all the land from which water drains into a specific body of water.
  10. 19. a drainage area, generally made up of many smaller units called watersheds; area of land drained to form a river.