Watersheds

A geographical barrier, such as a ridge, hill or mountain, separating one watershed land area from another.

• Watershed

• Drainage Divide

• Aquifer

• Permeable

Water occurring in a stream, lake, river, reservoir, estuary, wetland or the ocean.

• Waterhsed

• Drainage Divide

• Surface Water

• Ground Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

• Groundwater

• Surface Water

• Permeable

• Impermeable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The top of the saturation zone, below which water fills all the open spaces between the rocks

• Water table

• Surface Water

• Watershed

• Drainage Divide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A layer of permeable rock that retains and filters water.

• Drainage Divide

• Surface Water

• Water Table

• Aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

This word describes when rock has spaces that allows water to move through

• Permeable

• Impermeable

• Surface Water

• Drainage Divide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Sunken land surface due to underlying compression of earth material as a result of the removal of groundwater.

• Permeable

• Subsidence

• Drainage Divide

• Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is an example of Point Source Water pollution?

• Wastewater pipe draining into a stream

• Runoff from agriculture

• Precipitation

• Runoff from city

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What is an example of Nonpoint Source Water Pollution?

• Runoff from city

• Wastewater into a stream

• Factory chemical leak

• Landfill

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

An area of land where the surface water and groundwater drain into a particular body of water

• Watershed

• Drainage Divide

• Erosion

• Aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4