Water Vocab Part 1

All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.

• Atmosphere
• Lithosphere
• Biosphere
• Hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Region of land that drains downhill into a body of water

• Watershed
• Hydrosphere

• Evaporation

• Rain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water-saturated land area that supports aquatic plants (example: swamps, bogs, marshes)

• Wetland
• Tributary

• Hydrosphere

• Desert

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.

• Ocean
• Tributary
• Aquifer

• Salinity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a rock layer that collects and stores water underground

• waterbed
• aquifer
• lakebed
• salination

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The amount of salt in water

• Density

• Freshwater

• Desalination

• Salinity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Removal of salt from seawater

• Salinity

• Desalination

• Freshwater

• Swamps

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the amount of mass something is made up of

• Salinity

• Evaporation

• Density
• Hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas

• Condensation
• Sublimation
• Freezing
• Evaporation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

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

• precipitation
• condensation

• evaporation

• blizzard

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4