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Course/Subject:6th Grade Science
Topic: Water in Earth’s Processes Unit
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Key Learning: Recognize the significant role of water in Earth’s processes.
What role does water play in Earth’s processes?
Concept:
Water Cycle
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Fresh Water
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Salt Water
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Currents, Waves
and Tides
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What is the water
cycle?
What is an
aquifer?
What energy
source powers the
water cycle?
What is a
watershed?
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How much of
Earth’s surface is
covered with
water?
What is
evaporation?
What is
transpiration?
What is
condensation?
What is runoff?
What is
percolation?
What is
precipitation?
What causes
precipitation?
What is
groundwater?
What causes
tides?
What is an ebb
tide?
What is a well?
What is a flood
What are the
tide?
names of the major
oceans?
How many times a
day do the tides
Where are the
change?
major oceans
located?
What is a spring
How much of
Earth’s surface
is covered with
water?
What are the
oceans from
largest to
smallest?
What are the
three states of
water?
What is salinity?
What are
currents?
Where does the
salt in the ocean
come from?
What are surface
currents?
What is the
water table?
What is a
spring?
What is the
How do rain,
What is the
distribution of salt
water?
What are tides?
tide?
What is a neap
tide?
What is the current
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snow, sleet and
hail form?
distribution of
fresh water?
What is humidity?
How does heat
affect salinity?
What is relative
humidity?
How does water
movement affect
salinity?
What is dew
point?
What is a
psychrometer?
Vocabulary:
Hydrosphere
Water cycle
Humidity
Relative humidity
Precipitation
Evaporation
Condensation
Infiltration
Percolation
Transpiration
Sublimation
Dew point
What is climate
and how does it
affect salinity?
that is in the
Atlantic Ocean?
What are waves?
What causes
waves?
What are the parts
of a wave?
What are the
environments of
the ocean?
Vocabulary:
Aquifer
Watershed
Groundwater
Water table
Spring
Well
Reservoir
Glaciers
Polar Ice Caps
Vocabulary:
Salinity
Density
Oceanographer
Additional Information/Resources:
Brainpop
Videos
Lab: Density/Temperature/Salinity
QUIA vocab
Diagrams: water cycle, wave
animations
Vocabulary:
Surface current
Deep ocean current
Spring tide
Neap tide
Wave
Crest
Trough
Amplitude
Wave height
Wave period
Gulf Stream
Gyres
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