Texas Aquatic Science Chapter 8 Video Introduction

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Texas streams and rivers support diverse ecosystems that are dependent upon the size and flow of water. The healthiest streams and rivers are those with the least altered natural processes. Streams and rivers contain flowing water. The word “stream” can be used to describe all flowing natural waters. Water flow in streams is called stream flow. The word “river” usually refers to a large stream. Texas has 15 major river basins and over 3,700 named streams. If you lined up all the streams and rivers in Texas end to end, they would flow over over 191,000 miles distance.– Texas Aquatic Science Chapter 8: Streams and Rivers

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Texas Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife, The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. Additional project support came from the Ewing Halsell Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sport Fish Restoration Program. Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D. wrote and edited the Texas Aquatic Science textbook. Videos were produced by Randall Maxwell. Sandra Johnson, Ph.D. served as educational consultant and authored the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.