Hydrosphere Vocab

All of the water on and under the Earth's surface. - Includes oceans, lakes. rivers, glaciers, groundwater, and all other bodies of water.

• Hydrosphere

• Estuary

• Watershed

• Water Quality

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The tightness across the surface of the water.

• Brackish

• Upwelling

• Surface Tension

• Universal Solvent

The land area that supplies water to a river system.

• Aquifer

• Watershed

• Esturary

• River Basin

Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.

• Surface Water

• Groundwater

• Watershed

• River Basin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

• Aquifer

• Estuary

• Watershed

• Groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Water is able to pass through something that is ___________.

• Brackish

• Salinity

• Permeable

• Solvent

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

This body of water stores water for human consumption.

• Surface Water

• Reservoir

• River Basin

• Groundwater

Area where fresh and salt water meet

• Density

• Aquifer

• Estuary

• Upwelling

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A semi-enclosed area where fresh water from a river meets salty water from the sea.

• Watershed

• Groundwater

• cEstuary

• oalOcean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4