Across
- 1. When sediment is put down.
- 4. A measurement of suspended solids in water.
- 6. Come from rain, snowmelt, or underground springs, the water often holds very few nutrients or pollutants
- 8. How fast water moves.
- 11. A fan shaped mass of mud and other sediment that forms where a river enters a large body of water
- 12. When too many nutrients enter a pond or other body of water.
Down
- 2. Streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river.
- 3. Is ingested by animals and become concentrated as they move up the food chain.
- 5. Land area that supplies water into a river system, also called drainage basin.
- 7. Keeps watersheds separated, mountain ranges or ridges of land.
- 9. Where a river empties into a larger body of water (usually an ocean or bay)
- 10. Area covered with water all or part of the year