Watershed Crossword

2. a substance that contaminates the water, air, or soil
3. a power plant cooling reservoir
6. these basins include the areas of coastal plains, peninsulas and islands that lie adjacent to and between the main river basins for which the coastal basin is named
7. a river rising in northwest texas
11. the wearing away of land surface materials, especially rocks, sediments, and soils by the action of water, wind, or ice
12. harmful substances in water that can make it unfit for drinking or for supporting aquatic resources
13. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year
15. a body of flowing water
16. where spring water flows from an aquifer and starts a stream
17. a stream that flows for most or all of the year
18. a draining area, generally made up of many smaller units called watersheds; area of land drained from a river
19. a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of the year

1. a partly enclosed body of water along the coast where one or more streams or rivers enter and mix freshwater with saltwater
2. water pollution that comes from a single source outlet
4. a river in east texas
5. a stream that flows into a larger stream or other bodies of water
8. water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet
9. the watershed, sub-watershed, and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location
10. deposition of silt, sand, rock, and other matter carried by water
14. all the land from which water drains into a specific body of water