Gage's Aquatic Vocab Crossword

3. All the land from which water drains into a specific body of water.
6. An area that includes parts of coastal plains, peninsulas, and islands that lie adjacent to and between the main river basins for which the coastal basin is named.
10. plain an area along a river formed from sediments deposited by floods
11. Physiographic Regions a region based upon physical geography and natural features of terrain and habitats.
13. 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.
15. A stream that flows into large stream or other body of water.
16. water pollution that comes from the single Source or Outlet.
17. a stream that flows, dries up, and flows again at different times of the year.
18. a fan-shaped deposit of alluvium at the mouth of a stream, where the stream empties into a large body of water
19. the process by which material is dropped or settles
20. the path a stream follows
21. the high ground where precipitation first collects and flows downhill in tiny trickles too small to create a permanent channel; the place where spring water flows from an aquifer and starts streams.

1. the bottom of a stream or river Channel.
2. a stream that flows, dries up, and flows again at different times of the year.
4. the process of particles carried in water falling out of suspension; disposition of slit, sand, Rock, and other matter carried by water.
5. a rock layer that stores and allows the flow of ground water
7. water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet.
8. A drainage area, generally made up of many smaller units called watersheds; area of land drained to form a river.
9. the watershed, sub-watershed, and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location.
12. a stream that flows for most or all of the year.
14. slit, Sand, and other matter carried and deposited by moving water.