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ENVI 101 Unit 1 Flashcards

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Environmental Studies

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Examines scientific, social, and cultural aspects of the environment

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Ecology

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Study of the relationship of organisms with their environment

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Ecosystem

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The defined place where living and nonliving things interact

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Abiotic factors

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Non-living factors in an environment ex. water, sun, soil

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Biotic factors

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Living factors in an environment ex. fish, plants, humans

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Human impacts on the environment

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Agriculture, fossil fuels, land development, fires

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Tragedy of the commons

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Overuse of resources

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What causes population growth?

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Revolutions in farming, medicine, industry, information-globalization

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Preservation

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Nature should be left alone

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Advocate for preservation

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John Muir

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Conservation

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Nature should be taken care of and managed wisely

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Advocates of conservation

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Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot

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Aldo Leopold

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Founder of the US Wilderness Society in 1935, author of the Sand County Almanac

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Rachel Carson

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Author of Silent Spring, book about DDT pollution

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Date of the first Earth Day

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April 22nd, 1970

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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US Agency founded in 1970 with the goal of environmental protection

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Backlash to environmental protection started during the…

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1980s

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18
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Environmental Impact of Humans Equation

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I=PAT

Impact
Population
Affluence (Power use per capita or carbon emissions)
Technology Development

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Three E’s of Sustainability

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Environment
Economy
Equity

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Sustainability

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Capacity for Earth’s natural systems to support life

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Natural resources

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Materials provided by nature that are essential to human life

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Ecosystem services

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Natural services provided by healthy ecosystems that support life and human economies at no cost

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Natural capital

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Natural resources and ecosystem services that support human life
ex. resource - tree, services - lumber, air purification, habitat, food

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Sustainable development

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Development of an economic system that uses natural resources in a way that does not permanently impact nature

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Science

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A way of knowing and discovering how nature works

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Scientific Method

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Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion, Report

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Standard deviation

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How much the actual measurements deviate from the average

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Peer review

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Peers in a field review your process and determine if a study is valid / orchestrated correctly

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Matter

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Anything that has mass and takes up space

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Element

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Substance that cannot be broken down into smaller substances by chemical reactions, made of atoms

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Compound

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Binding of two or more elements

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Atoms

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Building blocks of elements

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Atomic Number

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Number of protons in an element

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Mass Number

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Total number of neutrons and protons in the nucleus of an atom

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Average atomic mass

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Average weight of atoms across forms

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Isotopes

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Elements with a different number of neutrons than normal

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Ions

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Atoms or molecules that are electrically charged as a result of gaining or losing an electron

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Molecule

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Two or more elements joined by chemical bonds

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39
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Organic molecules

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Molecules that contain two or more carbon atoms

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Macromolecule

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Large biological molecules

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Four main macromolecules

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Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids

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Carbohydrates

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Sugar, source of energy

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Monosaccharides

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Simple sugars ex. glucose

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Disaccharides

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Made of two monosaccharaides ex. lactose, sucrose

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Polysaccharides

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Long chains of monosaccharides ex cellulose

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Lipids

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Store large amounts of energy, hydrophobic, monomer - glycerol and fatty acids

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Proteins

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Carry out tasks for the body, monomer - amino acids

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Nucleic acids

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Store information on how to make proteins, monomer - nucleotides, polynucleotides - RNA, DNA

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Energy

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Ability to do work

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Kinetic energy

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Energy in use

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Potential energy

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Energy being stored

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First law of thermodynamics / Law of conservation of energy

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When the form of energy is changed, no energy is created or lost

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Trophic structure

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Feeding level based on source of nutrients

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Producers / autotrophs

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Green plants, make energy from compounds and the environment via photosynthesis

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Consumers

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Obtain nutrients from other organisms

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Primary consumer

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Herbivores

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Secondary Consumers

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Carnivores / omnivores

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Tertiary consumers

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Carnivores eating other carnivores

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Detritus feeders

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Feed on dead bodies ex. earthworms, vultures

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Decomposers

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Break down remains ex. bacteria, fungi

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Aerobic respiration

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Turns stored chemical energy from food into energy

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Gross Primary Productivity (GPP)

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The rate at which an ecosystem producers convert solar energy into chemical energy stored in their compounds found in their tissues (rate of photosynthesis)

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Net Primary Productivity (NPP)

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Rate of photosynthesis minus use of aerobic respiration (NPP=GPP-R)

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Standing biomass

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Amount of accumulated matter found in a plant

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Geology

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The study of dynamic processes taking place on the Earth’s surface and its interior

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Three major concentric zones

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Core, mantle, crust

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The Earth’s crust is mostly composed of…

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minerals and rocks

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Mineral

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Naturally occurring chemical element or inorganic compound that exists as a crystalline solid

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Rock

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Solid combination of one or more minerals

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Sedimentary rocks

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Rocks formed by combination and compaction ex. shale, sandstone

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Metamorphic Rocks

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Existing rocks subjected to high pressure or high temperature ex. slate

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Igneous Rocks

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Rocks formed under intense heat /pressure and cooling ex. obsidian

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Meteorites

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Giant rocks that enter the Earth’s atmosphere

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Tectonic Plates

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Crust plates

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Divergent boundary

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Plates moving away from each other

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Convergent boundary

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Plates moving together

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Transform plate boundary

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Plates grind together

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Volcano

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Magma rising through the lithosphere reaches the Earth’s surface

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Eruption

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Release of magma, hot ash, and gases into the environment

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Earthquake

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Breakage and shifting of rocks, occurs at a fault

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Focus

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Origin of the earthquake

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Magnitude

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Security of the earthquake

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Richter Scale

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Measures the magnitude of an Earthquake

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Largest earthquake in recorded history

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Chile, 9.2 on Richter Scale

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Tsunamis

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Giant waves caused by undersea earthquakes happening on the oceanic crust

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Glaciers

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Sheets of ice formed by deep snowpack - compressed into ice

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Oceans make up…

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97% of Earth’s water

88
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Hydrologic cycle

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Movement of water, distributed unevenly

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Zone of saturation

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Spaces in soil below a certain depth, filled with water

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Aquifers

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A body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater, recharged naturally by precipitation or nearby streams, and rivers

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Hydrologic cycle steps

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Evaporation, precipitation, surface runoff

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Surface runoff

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Precipitation runs off into bodies of water, or into the ground

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Atmosphere

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Thin blanket of gases surrounding Earth 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen

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Troposphere

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Innermost layer of the atmosphere, 20km up, supports life

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Stratosphere

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20-50km up, contains protective ozone layer, filter ~95% of harmful UV radiation

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Weather is made up of

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Temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, cloudiness (at a specific time)

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Climate

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Long term average weather patterns, different scales - local, regional, global

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Earth rotates around ___ and revolves around ___

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Its axis; the Sun

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Earth’s poles are ____ degrees off the perpendicular

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23.5

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Hadley Cells

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Large atmospheric cells where air rises at the equator then sinks at medium latitudes

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Rain shadow effect

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Mountains affect rainfall; leeway side of mountains unable to have growths due to mountains causing precipitation on windward side

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Urban heat island

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Higher temperature in cities than in surrounding countryside, caused by black pavement

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Albedo effect

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How much sunlight is reflected by the Earth’s surface

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Evapotranspiration

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Tree releases water in hot weather

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Soil

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Mixture of dirt, minerals, water, decomposing organic material, and more

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Soil formation begins with….

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Mechanical weathering

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Mechanical weathering

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Breaking up of rock due to water, wind, temperature

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Chemical weathering

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Chemical reactions decompose rocks

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Parent material

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Original material from which soil develops

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When organisms die, they decompose and are incorporated in the soil as _____ by fungi and bacteria

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Organic matter

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Soil texture

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Determined by weight (%) of sand, silt, and clay

112
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Loam

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Well suited soil for plant growth, 40% sand, 40% silt, 20% clay

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Particle sizes of sand, silt, and clay

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Sand - .05mm-2mm
Silt - .002mm-.05mm
Clay - <.002mm

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Fine soils drain _____ than course soils

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slower

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Soil order

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“Age” of soil

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NY Soils

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Inceptisols, Altisols, Spodisols

117
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Soil erosion is a threat to…

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Agricultural sustainability

118
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Dust Bowl / The Dirty Thirties

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Severe drought and dust storms in the midwestern US during the Great Depression

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Dust Bowl led to the creation of the ____ and the ____

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Soil Erosion Service (later became the Natural Resources Conservation Service), Prairie States Forestry Project

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Carbon cycle

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Photosynthesis and aerobic respiration

121
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Nitrogen gas in the atmosphere

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78% of atmosphere, cannot be absorbed by plants naturally; requires lightning or nitrogen fixing bacteria

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Fertilizers impact on the environment

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Fertilizers add too much nitrogen and phosphate to the soils, carried via runoff into oceans and lakes, suffocating animals by promoting excessive plant growth

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Eutrophication

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suffocation of sea life caused by excess nitrogen promoting plant growth

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