U2P1 - Vocabulary Words

A smooth, nearly flat region of the deep ocean floor.

• seamount

• abyssal plain

• density

• groundwater

Density

• mass of an object divided by its volume.

• the salt content of sea water.

• water that fills the cracks and spaces underground soil and rock layers.

• a submarine mountain.

A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another stream.

• Lake

• Sswamp

• River

• Puddle

the salt content of water

• reservoir

• watershed

• pollution

• salinity

a large body of water surrounded by land

• stream

• lake

• river

• swamp

an underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water

• intertidal zone

• aquifers

• reservoir

• continental shelf

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.

• temperature

• motion

• groundwater

• pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

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

• trench

• aquifers

• groundwater

• abyssal plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

a gently sloping, shallow area of ocean floor that extends outward from the edge of the continent

• open ocean zone

• continental shelf

• seamount

• mid-ocean ridge

a steep incline of the ocean floor leading down the edge of the continental shelf

• intertidal zone

• groundwater

• continental slope

• open ocean zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3