Surface Water & Groundwater

The spaces between rocks or sediment where water is stored in an aquifer.

• Openings

• Pores

• Stream load

• Water table

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Materials carried by a stream are called its ________________

• Gradient

• Flow

• Stream load

• Watershed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The measure of how easily water can flow through something (in this case, an aquifer).

• Permeability

• Gradient

• Runoff

• Porosity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A smaller stream that feeds into a river is called a __________

• Watershed

• Tributary

• Lake

• Pond

A river's __________ is the amount of water that moves through the river channel in a given amount of time.

• Gradient

• Divide

• Movement

• Flow

The water ____________ is the upper boundary, or surface, of groundwater.

• Layer

• Table

• Holder

• Surface

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water above Earth's surface is called (a)   water.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An (a)   is a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows it to flow.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

In the video "World's Water Crisis", aquifer's were explained to be like a _____________ account.

• Debit

• Credit

• Savings

• Open

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Agriculture uses the largest amount of available freshwater -- even more than humans drink.

• True

• False