Across
- 3. / one of the bends, twists, or curves in a low-gradient stream or river
- 5. / the area of land that is drained by a river system
- 7. / a process of removing salt from ocean water
- 8. / the materials other than the water that are carried by a stream
- 12. / any form of water that falls to Earth’s surface from the clouds
- 13. / a stream or river that is composed of multiple channel that divide and rejoin around sediment bars
- 14. / a fan-shaped mass of rock material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases sharply
- 15. / the change in elevation over a given distance
Down
- 1. / a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream
- 2. / an area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks
- 4. / the total loss of water from an area, which equals the sum of the water lost by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and the water lost by transpiration from organisms
- 6. / a fan-shaped mass of rock material deposited at the mouth of a stream
- 9. / the volume of water that flows within a given time
- 10. / the continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans
- 11. / the change of state from a gas to a liquid