Pollution Vocab Quiz Holt Environmental Science

Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.

• surface water

• river system

• groundwater

• aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

As streams and rivers move across the land, they form a flowing network of water called a/an

• aquifer

• groundwater

• river system

• surface water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

the area of land that is drained by a river system

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

• aquifer

• watershed

• surface water

• groundwater

Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers is called a/an

• groundwater

• watershed

• surface water

• aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater is a /an?

• watershed

• river system

• surface water

• aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The amount of open space between rock particles.

• permeability

• recharge zone

• porosity

• potable

The ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it

• pathogen

• potable

• porosity

• permeability

Area of the Earth's surface where water percolates down into the aquifer

• Aquifer

• Porosity

• Recharge Zone

• Dam

Means suitable for drinking

• potable

• porous

• permeable

• pathnogenic

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

• pathogen

• potable

• porous

• permenable