Rivers Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A pier that provides a landing place on a river (5)
  2. 7. A pass to a receiver upfield from the passer (7)
  3. 8. A deep and relatively narrow body of water that allows the best passage for vessels (7)
  4. 10. A low ___ adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to ___ (10)
  5. 13. The land inside an ___ bend in a river (5)
  6. 14. Something that is oriented ___ (8)
  7. 15. A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances (8)

Down

  1. 1. Furniture you sleep on (3)
  2. 2. A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body (5)
  3. 4. A mixture in which fine particles are ___ in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy (10)
  4. 5. A bend or curve, as in a stream or river (7)
  5. 6. A place where a river or stream drops over a steep edge. (9)
  6. 9. A state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action (9)
  7. 11. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river (6)
  8. 12. The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice (8)