Across
- 2. the action of collecting water, especially the collection of rainfall over a natural drainage area
- 4. is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves
- 6. is a type of vaporization of a liquid that occurs from the surface of a liquid into a gaseous phase
- 7. water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
- 10. This is where the stream starts
- 11. Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
- 12. the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
- 13. is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity
- 14. A river basin is the land that water flows across or under on its way to a river
- 18. a large natural stream of fresh water flowing along a definite course, usually into the sea, being fed by tributary streams
- 19. In hydrologic terms, flow that occurs overland in places where there are no defined channels
Down
- 1. an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas
- 3. A drainage basin or catchment basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain, melting snow
- 5. a channel is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path of relatively shallow and narrow body of fluid
- 8. A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or standing water
- 9. a branch of a river that does not return to the main stream after leaving it (as in a delta)
- 15. The definition of a riverbank is the land above the edge of a river
- 16. A river following a winding course
- 17. Confluence of rivers is defined as a meeting point of two or more rivers