Hydrosphere Vocabulary

water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers

• surface water

• salt water

• groundwater

• estuary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water that collects on the surface of the ground.

• surface water

• ground water

• estuary

• salt water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The area of land drained by a river and its branches.

• well

• aquifer

• water table

• river basin

a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.

• groundwater

• aquifer

• freshwater

• basin

The Florida Everglades is a large, warm wetland with many plants, animals, and microscopic organisms. Which part of the Earth system includes the water in the Everglades?

• the geosphere

• the cryosphere

• the atmosphere

• the hydrosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The land area that supplies water to a river system.

• water table

• aquifer

• watershed

• well

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface for at least part of the year

• aquifer

• groundwater

• basin

• wetland

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.

• estuary

• basin

• watershed

• wetland

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground

• well

• water table

• runoff

• aquifer

Flow of water from the land surface into the subsurface...

• evaporation

• infiltration

• transpiration

• porous

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4