Earth's Water Vocabulary

water in the atmosphere that falls to Earth as rain, snow, hail, or sleet

• condensation

• evaporation

• circulation

• precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a human-made place to collect and store water

• ocean

• river

• reservoir

• glacier

the amount of salt dissolved in water

• salinity

• aquifer

• reservoir

• glacier

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

pattern of rising and falling water in the ocean caused by gravity

• aquifer

• circulation

• tide

• glacier

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the continuous movement of water on Earth

• condensation

• water cycle

• precipitation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

underground water supply

• aquifer

• reservoir

• glacier

• tide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

a swirling movement

• aquifer

• circulation

• condensation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the process in which a gas cools and becomes a liquid

• condensation

• evaporation

• precipitation

• tide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

the process in which a substance warms and changes from a liquid into a gas

• precipitation

• condensation

• circulation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

a slow moving body of ice on land

• aquifer

• tide

• salinity

• glacier

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2