Drainage basin worksheet - Humanities€¦ · PARTS OF THE RIVER Name:_____ Class:_____ Watch this...
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PARTS OF THE RIVER Name:____________________ Class:_________ Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUlAANVBYHM#t=169
Annotate the diagram below to include the following terms: tributary, confluence, channel, watershed, source, river bed, river bank
Drawing from http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/wsb/pdfs/351.pdf
Across
2. Land that gets flooded when the river overflows 5. The space that water flows through
6. The point where two smaller rivers join a larger one. 9. Smaller rivers that join a larger main river 10 The bottom of a river channel (2 words)
Down
1. Where the river flows into a lake
3. The area that supplies a river with precipitation (2 words) 4. The side of a river channel (2 words)
7. An imaginary line separating one drainage basin from another 8. The starting point of a river
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Across2 Land that gets
flooded when the river overflows (2 Words)
5 The space that water flows through
6 The point were two smaller rivers join
9 Smaller rivers that join a larger main river
10 The bottom of a river channel (2 Words)
Down1 Where the river
flows into a lake, ocean or sea
3 The area that supplies a river with rain (2 Words)
4 The side of a river channel (2 Words)
7 An imaginary line separating one drainage basin from the next
8 The starting point of a river