Hydrosphere Vocabulary

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

• surface water

• salt water

• groundwater

• estuary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water that collects on the surface of the ground.

• surface water

• ground water

• estuary

• salt water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The area of land drained by a river and its branches.

• well

• aquifer

• water table

• river basin

a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.

• groundwater

• aquifer

• freshwater

• basin

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The land area that supplies water to a river system.

• water table

• aquifer

• watershed

• well

ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface for at least part of the year

• aquifer

• groundwater

• basin

• wetland

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.

• estuary

• basin

• watershed

• wetland

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back

• rock cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• hydrosphere

• water cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The change of state from a liquid to a gas

• condensation

• evaporation

• precipitation

• transpiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

pollution that comes from a specific site

• non-point source pollution

• point source pollution

• hydrosphere

• runoff