Unit 7: Vocabulary

A system containing all the solid and liquid water on Earth.

• Hydrosphere

  
  

• Seawater

  
  

• Freshwater

• Surface Water

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water from a sea or ocean that has an average salinity of 35 ppt.

• Hydrosphere

  
  

• Seawater

  
  

• Freshwater

• Surface Water

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water that has less than 0.2 percent salt content dissolved in it.

• Hydrosphere

  
  

• Seawater

  
  

• Freshwater

• Surface Water

  
  

The water that fills lakes and rivers.

• Hydrosphere

  
  

• Seawater

  
  

• Freshwater

• Surface Water

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water that is stored in cracks and pores beneath Earth’s surface

• Watershed

• Runoff

• Groundwater

•  Water Table

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

water that flows over Earth’s surface

• Watershed

• Runoff

• Groundwater

•  Water Table

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

an area of land that drains runoff into a particular stream, lake, ocean, or other body of water.

• Watershed

• Runoff

• Groundwater

•  Water Table

  
  

the upper limit of the saturated zone

• Watershed

• Runoff

• Groundwater

•  Water Table

  
  

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

an area of permeable sediment or rock that holds significant amounts of water

•  Aquifer

  
  

• Pollution

• Ocean System

  
  

• Upwelling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

the contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life

•  Aquifer

  
  

• Pollution

• Ocean System

  
  

• Upwelling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4