### waters | stream:

Braided stream
* are wide, shallow, and heavily loaded with sediment.
* have multiple channels that interconnect like the strands of a braid.

Brook
* are located in bridges
  - cities
  - countrysides
  - parks
  - rural areas
  - streams
* are used for fishing
  - life
  - water sources
* deterministic model that looks at hydrologic dynamics at the watershed level.
* have water.
* stickleback can reproduce when they are one year old
  - have prominent mouths, large eyes and four to six spines on their backs

### waters | stream:

Creek
* Many creeks quit flowing and either became intermittent with pools or dried up.
* Most creeks flow into rivers
  - through glacial outwash and debris material within narrow valleys
* Most creeks have fish
  - predatory fish
  - serve as habitats
* also produce current - some a little, some a lot depending on their water shed.
* are dynamic systems.
* are located in countrysides
  - forests
  - meadows
  - wood
  - small rivers
  - used for water
  - usually high in the spring
  - watercourses
* can become a raging force causing death and destruction
  - rise in the middle of the night
* cease to flow and floodplains quickly dry out.
* chub readily take baited hooks and are often caught by children.
* often vanish underground only to resurge farther on.
* possess fish.
* run dry for most of the year.

### waters | stream | creek:

Boulder creek
* Boulder Creek tributary of the South Platte River.
+ Boulder, Colorado, Geography: County seats in Colorado
  * Boulder Creek flows through the City. Boulder Creek was named a long time before the city was built. It was named after the big granite boulders that have fallen into the creek over the years. Historians think that Boulder City was named after Boulder Creek. The water in Boulder Creek comes from melting mountain snow and small rivers West of the city. Boulder Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River.

Cripple creek
* Cripple Creek fast-moving meadow stream south of Rural Retreat in Western Virginia.
* Cripple Creek is in central Colorado, in Teller County
  - one of three casino gaming towns in the state
  - statutory city with a mayor, city council and city administrator

Silver creek
* Silver Creek has two separate but interconnected mountains.
* Silver Creek is an important spawing area for brown trout
  - home to an abundance of rainbow, brown and brook trout
  - located on the main East-West Union Pacific Railroad line

Ephemeral stream
* are especially vulnerable to gullying and destruction of vegetation
  - most common in the arid and semi-arid regions of the western United States
  - small, temporary paths which occur only during a rainstorm or after a flood
* have negligible aquatic resources.

Glacial stream
* flow over surface of lake deposits and lay down sand and gravel deposits.
* produce other deposits.

Healthy stream
* contain a variety of plants, insects, and animals.
* have flood plains and often have adjacent wetlands.
* mean clean water and livable communities for people and fish.
* support a wide variety of organisms.

Ice stream
* are different than glaciers in that they are bordered by ice instead of rock
  - fast moving extensions of ice caps and ice sheets
* drain ice caps or ice sheets
  - into the sea in a number of other places along the coast of East Antarctica

Intermittent stream
* are seasonal streams that flow only during certain times of the year.
* flow at least six months of the year
  - part of the year
* serve as feeding and spawning grounds for many migratory minnows.

Mountain stream
* are to be found throughout the land.
* can become raging torrents when heavy rain falls.
* erode narrow, V-shaped valleys and waterfalls.

Perennial stream
* are Rivers under the law.
* flow all year
  - in a few drainages
* have algae-covered rocky bottoms.

Rill
* are channels
  - located in moons
* can enlarge to form gullies.
* merge to form larger streams and rivers.