SSA Vocab Quiz Week 1 (3/4-3/8)

Match the following

• Weather

• the conditions at a particular time and place , such as temperature and precipitation

• climate

• a mass of very dry dusty air which forms over the Sahara Desert

• permeable

• a layer that allows water to move through the material

• aquifer

• the average weather conditions in a certain place or during a certain season

• Saharan Air Layer

• an underground layer of permeable rock, sediment or soil that contains water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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A layer that does not allow water to move through the material

• permeable

• impermeable

• surface water

• osmosis

the type of pressure system that brings clear skies and calm weather

• no pressure system

• low pressure system

• high pressure system

• front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Water present beneath the surface of the Earth

• ground water

• surface water

• deep down water

• aquifer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

water on the surface of Earth such as a river, stream, lake or ocean

• top water

• usable water

• surface water

• unusable water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Match the following

• watershed

• the boundary between 2 different air masses

• front

• type of pressure system that brings clouds and precipitation

• runoff

• the part of the water cycle that flows over land as surface water

• Continental Drift Theory

• an area of land where all the water is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place

• low pressure system

• All the continents used to be connected and have since drifted to their current locations

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Convection currents is the process in the Earth's __________ that scientists believe is driving the movement of the plates

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tectonic plates

• broken pieces of Earth's mantle

• broken pieces of candy

• broken pieces of the rock cycle

• broken pieces of the Earth's crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Match the following

• Pangaea

• where two plates slide past each other

• divergent boundary

• Supercontinent that included all current land masses before they split apart

• convergent boundary

• where two plates collide

• plate boundary

• where two plates separate or divide

• transform boundary

• location where plates come in contact

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3