Unit 7 Freshwater and Soils Review

All of the land or area that drains into a specific river system.

• Watershed

• Aquifer

• Porosity

• Water Table

The process by which Earth materials are carried away (transported) by wind, water, gravity, or ice.

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The process by which sediments are laid down.

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Physical Weathering

• Chemical Weathering

Permeable rocks containing water.

• Aquifer

• Watertable

• Zone of Aeration

• Permeability

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The underground region where all of the pores are filled with water.

• Zone of saturation

• Zone of aeration

• Watertable

• Watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A deposit shaped like an icicle hanging from the roof of a cave.

• Stalagtite

• Stalagmite

• Column

• Watertable

Amount of empty/air space in a substance.

• Zone of saturation

• Zone of aeration

• Porosity

• Watershed

The upper surface of the zone of saturation.

• Zone of saturation

• Zone of aeration

• Watertable

• Watershed

The rate at which a fluid can move through a material.

• Aquifer

• Porosity

• Zone of Aeration

• Permeability

A layer in a soil profile.

• Soil horizon

• Watershed

• Water table

• Soil profile