Across
- 5. When water flows over the land into rivers and the sea
- 6. When water from the surface, soaks through to the soil and rock below.
- 10. Rainfall is trapped by leaves on trees
- 11. Small stones and pebbles bounce along the river bed
- 14. Sand and pebbles scrape the sides of the river bed and banks like sandpaper
- 15. Acids in the water dissolve rocks in the river
Down
- 1. The shear force of the water pushes into cracks in the river bed and banks, and breaks them up
- 2. Type of rock that doesn't allow water to pass through it
- 3. End of a river, where it meets the sea
- 4. The wearing away of rock
- 7. Name of a smaller river which joins into a larger one
- 8. Fine particles such as sand are carried in the flow of the river
- 9. Where two rivers meet
- 12. Rocks in the river bang together and make each other smaller and rounder
- 13. Large rocks roll along the river bed
- 15. Start of a river, high up in the mountains