Hydrosphere Vocab 1

All water found on, above, and under the Earth's surface.

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Earthsphere

• Watersphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A rock layer that collects and stores water

• Watershed

• Groundwater

• Aquifer

• Estuary

Water that is not salty

• Freshwater

• Ocean water

• Salt water

• Milk

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water located below the Earth's surface

• Underwater

• Groundwater

• Belowwater

• Ocean water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A measure of how clear water is

• Clearness

• Turboclear

• Pollution

• Turbidity

A measure of how acidic or how basic a liquid is

• gH

• pH

• pL

• gL

A place where freshwater from a river meets and mixes with salt water from the ocean

• Estuary

• The creek in Hanes Park

• Watershed

• Resevoir

The saltiness of a body of water

• pH Level

• Aquifer

• Salinity

• Pollutant

The release of an unwanted substance into the environment

• Ocean Basin

• Watershed

• Pollution

• Salinity

The movement of cold, nutrient-rich water from deep layers of the ocean up to the surface

• Forewelling

• Postwelling

• Downwelling

• Upwelling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6