What is the difference between a creek and a brook?

Answer 1

i would think that a brook was a little bigger in size than a creek

Answer 2

I believe that the difference would be very slight at best. Here if the water has a lot of slow or stagnant water then it is creek. If it is moving with any speed at all it is a brook. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

A creek is small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river. A brook is a natural stream of water smaller than a creek.

Answer 4

A stream, brook, beck or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks.

The answer therefore then is there is no difference

Answer 5

a brook babbles
a creek runs

Answer 6

Mostly geography,they are both names for the same thing,but it depends on where you live on what you call it.I personally think no brook ever flowed through a gulley.Brooks tend to be spring fed,hence Brook Trout.No trout ever lived in a creek.Of course,one man's stream is another man's river.

Answer 7

a creek is in the floor -a brook is in the ground ):-l think their one and the same thing -saranora dnear

Answer 8

I think a brook is smaller and moves faster.However,I've always wondered that myself.I'd like to know how a stream is different than either one of those.

Answer 9

If you drive an 80 thousand dollar car -it's a brook If you drive a 40 thousand dollar car- it's a creek
If you drive any thing less it's a crick.

Lot's of cricks around here.

Answer 10

creeks will normally dry up while brooks are usually from underground streams and tend to be much colder and cleaner.