Fresh or Salty? is a free printable Grade 2 science worksheet on identifying where fresh water and salt water are found, aligned to NGSS performance expectation 2-ESS2-3. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 6 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Fresh or Salty?
2-ESS2-3
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Sort each one into fresh water or salt water.
1.Sort each one: Fresh water or Salt water?
Sort: The open ocean, A very salty lake in a hot desert, A chunk of ice broken off a glacier, A lake in the hills
Fresh waterSalt water
2.Sort each one: Fresh water or Salt water?
Sort: A rock pool on the beach, A cloudy brown river after a storm, A spring bubbling out of a hillside, Sea spray on a windy beach
Fresh waterSalt water
3.Sort each one: Fresh water or Salt water?
Sort: Waves breaking on the shore, A salt marsh by the sea, A clear mountain stream, A garden pond
Fresh waterSalt water
LessonPrint · 2-ESS2-3 · Set 6 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Fresh or Salty?
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A chunk of ice broken off a glacier — Fresh water 2. A lake in the hills — Fresh water 3. A very salty lake in a hot desert — Salt water 4. The open ocean — Salt water
2.1. A cloudy brown river after a storm — Fresh water 2. A rock pool on the beach — Salt water 3. A spring bubbling out of a hillside — Fresh water 4. Sea spray on a windy beach — Salt water
3.1. A clear mountain stream — Fresh water 2. A garden pond — Fresh water 3. A salt marsh by the sea — Salt water 4. Waves breaking on the shore — Salt water
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to 2-ESS2-3 of the Next Generation Science Standards.