Water Cycle Vocab Quiz

rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground.

• infiltration

• percolation

• precipitation

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity/ ocean currents

• global currents

• water cycle

• global conveyor belt

• recombination

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• infiltration

• percolation

• precipitation

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The change water from a gas to a liquid

• condensation

• precipitaion

• transpiration

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back

• Aquifer

• Water Cycle

• Water Table

• Precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.

• Aquifer

• Groundwater

• Water Table

• Condensation

the top of the saturated zone

• water table

• surface runoff

• zone of aeration

• permeable

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.

• groundwater

• aquifer

• water table

• permeable

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Water flowing off the land into bodies of surface water.

• surface runoff

• groundwater

• infiltration

• zone of saturation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water

• zone of aeration

• zone of saturation

• Aquifer

• Ground water