Freshwater: Ground and Surface Water

The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapo-transpiration is called the...

• carbon cycle
• nitrogen cycle
• water cycle
• rock cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is groundwater?

• all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• the area of land that is drained by a river system

• a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

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Area of land where surface water and groundwater drains into a river system.

• Runoff

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Watershed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An area or ridge of land that separtes waters flowing to different rivers, basins or seas.

• Runoff

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Watershed

When water flows across the surface of the earth it is called?

• Watershed

• River

• Run Off

• Rain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Healthy (potable) pH of a fresh water source is around

• 2.0

• 3.4

• 7.0

• 9.0

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Water above Earth's surface is called

• tributary

• surface water

• watershed

• groundwater

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What is occurring at A in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation

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What process is happening at C in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• condensation
• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An area of land in which all of the water falling or flowing over it drains to the same location is a/an…

• watershed
• watertable
• river
• aquifer

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