Stream Study Word Matching Exercise

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_____ Deposition 1) Soil, sand or minerals washed from land into waterways.
_____ Dissolved Oxygen 2) Animals that have no backbone and are visible without magnification.
_____ Erosion 3) The point at which no more of a substance can be can absorbed.
_____ Flood Plain 4) The part of a stream with flowing water.
_____ Macroinvertebrates 5) Pollution whose sources cannot be pinpointed. Examples include farmland, construction sites, and parking lots.
_____ Polluted Runoff 6) A specific source of pollution, such as a discharge pipe or smokestack
_____ Point Source Pollution 7) The banks of land and the plant and animal communities immediately adjacent to a stream. Also known as riparian zone.
_____ Pool 8) That portion of a stream that is shallow and fast flowing.
_____ Riffle 9) Oxygen dissolved in water but still in a gaseous state.
_____ Saturation 10) Level land situated on either side of a channel which is subject to overflow flooding, for example, river bottomland.
_____ Sediment 11) That portion of a stream that is deep and slow moving.
_____ Stream Channel 12) The land area that drains toward a natural surface water system such as a stream or lake.
_____ Stream Corridor 13) The accumulation of material dropped because of movement of water or wind.
_____ Watershed 14) The wearing away of the land surface by running water or wind.