Ground Water

Small rivers or creeks that flow down towards a main river

• divide

• saturated zone

• Aquifer

• tributaries

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Materials such as sand and gravel that allow water to pass through

• Groundwater

• reservoir

• permeable

• saturated zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A lake that stores water for human use

• reservoir

• impermeable

• Water table

• Aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The area of permeable rock or soil that is completely filled with water

• divide

• saturated zone

• impermeable

• Wetlands

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

land that separates two watersheds

• divide

• tributaries

• reservoir

• saturated zone

The land area that supplies water to a river system.

• Aquifer

• divide

• reservoir

• Watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• Watershed

• Wetlands

• Groundwater

• unsaturated zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

any underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that holds water

• reservoir

• Aquifer

• Wetlands

• Watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Means water cannot pass through

• Groundwater

• divide

• unsaturated zone

• impermeable

A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year

• Wetlands

• divide

• ArtesianWell

• Watertable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4