Across
- 5. the process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landforms or land mass.
- 7. is it form by an old meander
- 9. a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land
- 11. an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes
- 12. winding curve or bend of a river
- 14. the natural diversion of the headwaters of one stream into the channel of another, typically resulting from rapid head ward erosion by the latter stream.
- 17. to destroy by slow consumption or disintegration
Down
- 1. deposition at the mouth of the river
- 2. a river and all its tributaries which serve to drain a certain region
- 3. a chain of hills or mountains.
- 4. the vast body of salt water that covers almost three fourths of the earth's surface.
- 6. the meeting of two or more bodies of water
- 8. Erosion takes place at the origin of a stream channel
- 10. a stream that does not flow directly into the ocean
- 13. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels
- 15. to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
- 16. a high steep face of a rock