water use and pollution vocab

contains few or no pores

• permeable

• impermeable

• aquifer

all of the land area that supplies water to a particular river system

• watershed

• waste water

• surface water

• runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

containing spaces or pores through which water can pass

• permeable

• impermeable

• ground water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water that is relatively pure with few dissolved salts

• surface water

• ground water

• fresh water

a network of connected streams and rivers

• surface water

• river system

• watershed

• ground water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water found below the Earth's surface

• fresh water

• surface water

• ground water

• watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

water that flows over land and has not been absorbed into the ground

• fresh water

• aquifer

• water diversion

• runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

large lakes behind dams that store water for human use

• aquifer

• xerscaping

• water diversion

• reservoir

sponge like formations of rock, sand, or gravel that hold water

• aquifer

• xerscaping

• well

• recharge zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

process of moving water from its source to places where humans use it

• xerscaping

• recharge zone

• water diversion

• reservoir

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2