Earth's water systems vocab Unit 3

a thick sheet of ice

• Ice cap

• Glacier

• Reservoir

• Groundwater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water stored in the cracks and spaces between particles of soil and underground rocks

• Storage

• Conservation

• Floodplain

• Groundwater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

results when gasses, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, are released into the atmosphere

• Erosion

• Acid Rain

• Algal Bloom

• Groundwater

the practice of using resources wisely

• Conservation

• Storage

• Reservoir

• Floodplain

a sometimes harmful increase in the amount of algae found in water

• Algal Bloom

• Acid Rain

• Ice cap

• Reservoir

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a covering of ice over a large area such as in the polar regions

• Glacier

• Erosion

• Ice cap

• Algal Bloom

 an artificial lake built for storage of water

• Storage

• Reservoir

• Conservation

• Groundwater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the process of eroded materials being dropped off in another place

• Erosion

• Acid Rain

• Deposition

• Storage

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the process of water being stored on Earth’s surface, in the ground, or as a water feature

• Storage

• Conservation

• Deposition

• Floodplain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the process of weathered rock 

moving from one place to another

• Deposition

• Groundwater

• Storage

• Erosion