Freshwater Vocabulary

A land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally.

• Pollutant

• runoff

• wetland

• glaciers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An underground layer of rock that lets groundwater pass through slowly.

• freshwater

• aquifers

• impermeable

• water pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water with a low salt; such as streams, lakes, groundwater, and ice.

• freshwater

• infiltration

• swamp

• water pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A material that DOES NOT let water pass through it.  

• impermeable

• Nonpoint-Source Pollution

• permeable 

• Point-Source Pollution

A large body of water that is surrounded by land.

• wetland

• lake 

• swamp

• river

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A source of pollution that is NOT identifiable.

• Point-Source Pollution 

• permeable

• Nonpoint-Source Pollution

• impermeable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

A material that lets liquid or gas to pass through.  

• infiltration

• permeable

• pollutant 

• impermeable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise or light pollution

• Point-Source Pollution 

• aquifers

• Nonpoint-Source Pollution 

• infiltration 

A substance that contaminates air, water or soil.

• aquifers

• reservoir

• pollutant

• impermeable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A place where water is collected and stored for people to use.

• lake

• wetland

• swamp

• reservoir

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4