Across
- 7. Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel
- 8. Water hat flows over land that sinking into it.
- 9. The process of water turning from water to gas
- 11. The cycle that water goes through
- 12. The land area that contributes water to a stream
- 15. The act of snow, ice, rain, sleet falling
- 17. An accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean
- 19. The movement of water into rocks or soil through cracks
- 20. The process by which like-sized particles are deposited together
Down
- 1. Occurs when the discharge of stream becomes so great that it exceeds the carrying capacity of its channel and overflows its bank
- 2. Zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water
- 3. The total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport
- 4. The flat, low-lying portion of a stream valley subject to periodic flooding
- 5. An elevated land-formed that parallels a stream and acts to confine its waters
- 6. Drainage basins are separated by these
- 10. The release of water from plants
- 13. Stream deposits
- 14. Water underground
- 16. Then water vapor freezes into clouds
- 18. The slope of a stream over a certain distance
