Water and Its Currents Vocab

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Level in ground saturated with water.

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water table

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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Safe for humans to drink without treatment

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Potable

Front

Natural energy source that can be replenished.

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Renewable resource

Front

Related to land or Earth

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terrestrial

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Front

Area of Earth covered in ice in high latitudes

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polar caps

Front

Geologic system involving evaporation, condensation, precipitation, seepage, and runoff.

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Hydrologic cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Front

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or converted.

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Law of conservation of mass

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NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Front

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or converted.

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Law of conservation of energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Front

Water leaves a plant through the leaves.

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Transpiration

Front

Physical change where solid turns to gas without liquid:

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sublimation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4