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| Discharge and the amount of water flowing past a point in the amount of time. |
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| Is the boundary between the unsaturated and the saturated zone. |
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| P=R+ET+G, what does R stand for? |
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| A drainage basin refers to what? |
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| The area that is drained by a river or stream system and a watershed. |
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| Montreal Protocol is what? |
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| An international agreement that regulates CFC's and HCFC's. |
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| An aquifer pertains to what? |
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| Movement of air within what atmospheric level is largely responsible of Earth's weather? |
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| What percentage of the Earth's water is considered fresh water? |
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| After the radiation from the sun is absorbed into the Earth's surface, it is re-radiated back into the atmosphere as what? |
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| The major role of the atmosphere is what? |
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| That it controls the total amount of radiation the Earth receives, filters the radiation, and redistributes energy and acts as a transport system. |
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| Half of the radiation from the sun that reaches the earth is absorbed by what? |
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| An aquifer pertains to what? |
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| What is true of rocks, mafic rocks, felsic rocks, and the composition of the Earth's inner core? |
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| Rocks are composed of minerals, mafic rocks are less dense than felsic rocks, and Earth's inner core is primarily composed of iron, and nickle alloy that is located between the solid and liquid interface of theEarth's core. |
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| A developing school of economics that applies the principles of ecology and systems thinking to the description and analysis of economies. |
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| What rocks are generally has the highest density? |
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| As altitude increases above the Earth's surface, it flips between increasing and decreasing in clearly defined zones. The atmosphere can redistribute solar radiation in what three ways? |
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| Absorption, scattering, and reflection |
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| An international agreement that regulates CFC's and HCFC's. |
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| Highest to lowest altitude levels. |
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| Thermosphere, mesophere, stratosphere, trophosphere. |
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| The physical flow of matter and energy through differing states of an environment through differing states of an environment that does not include life. |
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| Where the continental crust is thicker under the mountains, Appalachian Mountains. |
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| Surface ocean currents are predominantly driven by what? |
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| Prevailing surface winds. |
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| Metamorphic rocks are formed by the application of what? |
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| Sensible heat and pressure. |
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| Drainage basins are defined by what? |
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| Preservation ethic suggest what? |
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| That the natural environment should be protected and maintained in a pristine, unaltered state. |
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| Is to reduce greenhouse gases; not yet successful. |
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| Pacific northwest mountain range of the US was formed by what? |
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| A collision of oceanic crust under continental crust, subduction. |
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| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, mission is to assess and synthesize scientific research on global climate change and to offer guidance to the world's policymakers. |
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| Silent Spring, speaks of the negative health and ecological effects of DDT. |
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| One of the consequences of ozone layer depletion is what? |
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| If the relative humidity is 100% and the temperature drops the water vapor in the air must do what? |
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| The greenhouse effect occurs when the molecules of atmospheric gases, such as CO2, does what? |
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| Traps long-wave radiation. |
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| Perchlorate contaminate is a component of what? a superfund problem where, and was detected in the drinking water of of where? |
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| Rocket fuel,southern California, Hills ,Iowa. |
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| The scientific method is based on what? |
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| Testing hypotheses that are built on observations. |
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| A flashy hydrograph often can represent or reflect a relatively fast response due to what? |
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| The lack of significant vegetation. |
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| Intrusion and formation of igneous rock represents what? |
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| The highest level of disturbance that can occur within a landscape. |
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| Early Earth's atmosphere, 4.5 billion years ago, was largely lacking in what? |
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| Mirrar clan in Australia opposed development of a what? |
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| On average, average, average, the atmospheric pressure at the north and south pole is what? |
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| Higher at the north pole than at the equator, lower at the south pole than at the equator. |
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| Development that satisfies our current needs without compromising the future availability of natural resources or our future quality of life. |
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| The highest percentage of solar radiation that is reflected away from the Earth by what? |
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| Meridional transfer mechanism does what? |
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| Helps to restore the energy balance for the Earth's atmosphere system. |
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| One who considers all living thing, human and otherwise, and evaluates environmental actions in terms of their overall impact on living things. |
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| Density stratification can account for what? |
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| The distribution of gases in the atmosphere, structure of the Earth, the structure of the ocean. |
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| CGCM's connect the interactions between what? |
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| The land and ocean to how they influence atmospheric circulation patterns. |
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| The 3rd wave of US environmental policy that began in the mid 20th century has focused primarily on which issue? |
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| ALdo Leopold wrote the essay titled what? |
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| The designation of Yellowstone was the result of what? |
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| The 2nd wave of US environmental policy in the late 1800's. |
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| The flame smoldered because there was no what? |
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| No gravity to cause the less dense hot gases to rise, which is necessary to allow oxygen to reach the flame. |
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| What country is in the process of withdrawing from Kyoto protocol? |
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| A belt of metamorphic rock that was formed by great heat and/or pressure that reshapes crystals within the rock and changes its appearance and physical properties, marble and slate. |
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| The transmission of energy, and heat, by the means of electromagnetic waves is known as? |
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| On average, which latitudinal location has the greatest surplus of solar radiation? |
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| The burning of forest is considered to be on of the major sources of what? |
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| Carbon in the biogeochemical cycle. |
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| The hydrologic cycle is a complex series of interchanges of water involving what? |
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| Oceans, atmosphere, and land areas. |
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| Temperature is the most important factor in determining what two characters of electromagnetic energy emitted by an object. |
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| Intensity and type(of wavelength). |
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