How many major river basins are located in Texas?

What is one factor that has a great influence on the size and flow of a stream?

What is one common feature that all healthy Texas streams and rivers share?

Which direction do stream channels run?

A riparian zone with heavy plant growth is the best protection against _____________.

What is the largest watershed in the United States?

A stream that flows into a larger stream is known as a ______________

A deposit of sediment built into a large body of water by deposition form a stream.

a flat region next to a stream or river that can be covered by water in times of a flood.

a curve that develops in the path of a river when the river flows over relatively flat land.

flowing water, such as a brook, river, or even an ocean current

the geographic area drained by a particular river or stream

a bank along a river of natural or human origin

a stream bank is steeper on the outside of a meander because the water there is flowing ____________.

what unit is used to measure the discharge volume of the stream?

The ____________________ ____________________ is a geographic line that separates North America into watersheds that drain into different oceans.

The availability of water for communities depends only on the amount and the quality of ________ in the watershed upstream from where the community takes its water

Floodplains are good for ________________________ because sediments brought by flood enrich the soil with important minerals and nutrients for plant growth

___________________ often forms a delta at the end of a stream.

Where a stream is straight, the fastest current is _______________________.

______________________ occurs along the outside, where the water flows fastest. 

The _________________a stream channel, the faster water will flow.

The small streams where the river starts are called _________________________

The more meanders in a river, the __________________ it is.

which animal can ruin rivers and streams for all the other animals and plants in the ecosystem?

The Grand Canyon was formed by the ______________________________