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| Farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year. |
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| The development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food crops. |
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| Resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable. Ex. Dead tree new tree grows. |
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| Resource that cannot be replenished by natural processes. |
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| Way of using natural resources without depleting them and of providing for human needs without causing long term environmental harm. |
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| Wearing away of surface soil by water and wind. |
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| In areas with dry climates, a process caused by a combination of poor farming practices, overgrazing, and drought that turns productive land into desert. |
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| Deforestation Destruction of forests. |
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| Raising of aquatic animals for human consumption. |
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| Mixture of chemicals that occurs as a gray-brown haze in the atmosphere. |
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| Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water. |
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| Rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids. |
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| The sum total of the genetically based variety of all organisms in the biosphere. |
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| Variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the living world. |
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| Number of different species in the biosphere. |
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| Sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living of Earth today. |
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| Occurs when a species disappears from all of part of its range. |
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| Species whose population size is rapidly declining and will become extinct if the trend continues. |
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| Splitting of ecosystems int small fragments. |
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| Increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web. |
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| Plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native. |
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| Describe the wise management of natural resources, including the preservation of habitats and wildlife. |
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