ESS.8.2.1 - Hydrosphere Vocab

What type of water contains a large amount of salt?

• Freshwater

• Brackish water

• Saltwater

• Groundwater

What is the term for water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock?

• Surface water

• Groundwater

• Estuary

• Runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following is a natural or man-made body of water that carries fresh or saltwater and is usually smaller than a river?

• Aquifer

• Creek

• Estuary

• Ice cap

Water that contains very little to no salt

• Saltwater

• Freshwater

• Brackish water

Water made when freshwater from a river or lake meets the salty seawater of an ocean body

• Saltwater

• Freshwater

• Brackish water

An area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean

• Glacier

• Estuary

• Ice cap

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a very large, thick mass of ice that stays frozen from one year to the next and has the ability to move.

• Glacier

• Estuary

• Ice cap

a thick layer of ice and snow, that covers fewer than 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles)

• Glacier

• Estuary

• Ice cap

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the top level of groundwater.

• Aquifer - Confined

• Aquifer - Unconfined

• Water table

an aquifer whose upper water surface (water table) is at atmospheric pressure, and thus is able to rise and fall

• Aquifer - Confined

• Aquifer - Unconfined

• Water table