Water

Label the water cycle

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b

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Ground Water

Transpiration

Evaporation

Condensation

Precipitation

Infiltration

Stream

Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Label the groundwater diagram.

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Unconfined Aquifer

Saturated Zone

Unsatruated Zone

Water Table

Confining Bed

Infiltration

Bedrock

Confined Aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Match the term with its definition.

• Precipitation

• The process of water changing from a liquid into water vapour. It is the most common way that liquid water moves back into the water cycle.

• Condensation

• When water falls from the clouds in the sky.

• Transpiration

• Water vapour in the air cools down and turns back into liquid water.

• Evaporation

• the process in which Precipitation or water soaks into soils and moves into rocks through cracks and open surfaces

  
  

• Infiltration

• the process of water Movement through a plant and its evaporation from parts such as leaves, stems, and flowers

  
  

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

True or False: A watershed is an area of land where surface water drains down into a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water, such as a larger river, lake, or ocean.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

True or False: A drainage divide is usually along hills or mountains

• True

• False

True or False: The water table is easy to access by digging with a shovel

• True

• False

True or False: A confined aquifer is surrounded by rock and clay

• True

• False

True or False: A confined aquifer is right below the Earth’s surface

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A ___ ____ is made by digging a large hole to below the water table to access the shallow groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A ______ ____ is make by driving a small-diameter pipe into the water table. The pipe that reaches the water-bearing sand or gravel will have a screen on it so that the sand or gravel cannot get into the water.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1