SOL 4.8 VA Resources Vocabulary

A living thing on Earth; Virginia had a variety of animal resources. Help provide food, fiber, leather and other materials (building).

• Plants

• Animals

• Minerals

• Fungi

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The Earth’s surface, which extends below the Earth's surface and up into the sky.

• Water

• Land

• Air

• Rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

An area over which surface water (and the materials it carries) flow to a single collection place.

• Watershed

• River Basin

• Floodplain

• Catchment Area

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Habitat

• Niche

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Body of salt water separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west.

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

Mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the Earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.

• Soil

• Sand

• Clay

• Rock

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A living thing that grows in the Earth, in water, on other plants and makes their own food; Virginia has a variety of plant resources. Help hold soil in place, provide food, materials and oxygen.

• Animals

• Fungi

• Plants

• Bacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Body of water with land on all sides.

• Ocean

• River

• Lake

• Pond

Large stream that flows across the land.

• Lake

• Pond

• River

• Stream

A system of water that all comes together and encompasses six major freshwater river basins that flow into the sounds.

• North Carolina Sounds Watershed

• Florida Everglades

• Mississippi River Basin

• Great Lakes Watershed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4