Grade 8 Science
Chapter 1: The water cycle plays a vital role on Earth.
Terms:
hydrosphere lithosphere atmosphere water cycle
hydrologist oceanographer salinity density
groundwater glacier drainage basin
1. Match the terms listed above with their textbook definitions below.
2. Rewrite each definition in your own words in the space provided.
3. Find each term in the chapter (p. 6 - 35) and note the page number.
Term
Textbook Definition
(Can be found in Glossary and/or on p. 6 - 35)
Your OWN Definition
(Include examples where possible.)
Page
Glacier
a large compressed mass of ice
and snow that does not melt in the
summer
A hard sheet of ice and snow that
remains solid year-round. The
Athabasca glacier is located in the
Canadian Rockies.
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the area of land from which water
drains into a body of water
the amount of mass in a certain
amount of volume; how tightly
packed the material is in a
substance
precipitation that falls on land and
sinks out of sight and remains in
cracks underground
the air surrounding the planet
the evaporation of water into a gas
in the atmosphere and the
precipitation of water in the air as it
falls back to the earth as rain or
snow
all of the water on Earth, including
that in the atmosphere and
lithosphere
a person who studies Earth’s water
systems and helps find solutions to
problems of water quality and
quantity
the solid rocky ground of Earth’s
crust
the amount of salt dissolved in a
specific amount of water
a scientist who studies aspects of
the ocean; is concerned with the
biology, chemistry, geology,
physics, and mathematics of the
ocean
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