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3.5% Salenity or 35 parts/thousand
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| Seven elements that account for over 99% of dissolved solids in the ocean. |
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| Chlorine, Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium, potassium, and Bromine |
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| Mixing Zone. Only accounts for 2% of the ocean. |
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| Littoral Zone (Coastal environment) |
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| Highest water line to point where waves cease to be an influence. (200ft depth) |
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| Value based on average tidal levels recorded hourly at a given site over many years. |
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| Daily oscillations in sea level |
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| Caused by attraction of the Sun and Moon. (Sun is half the effect of the moon) |
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| Friction between air and water surface |
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| How particles in water move |
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| When wave height exceeds stability |
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| Waves that involve the entire depth of water. |
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| Waves that can travel up to 500MPH |
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| Erosional and Depositional Landforms |
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| Barrier Spit, Bay Barrier, Lagoon, Tombolo, Beach, Stacks, Arches, caves, terraces, cliffs, Wavecut bench |
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| Pumping sand ashore to restore beach width. |
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| Fringing, atoll, and barrier |
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| Corals live in a sybiotic relationship with ______? |
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| What corals secrete to form reefs |
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| The temperature corals perfer. |
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| When corals reject their alae and become white |
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| Salt marshes are _____ of the 30th parallel. |
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| Mangrove Swamps are _____ of the 30th parallel. |
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| What part of a beach is able to be developed? |
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| The back of the secondary dune |
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| 77% of fresh water is ______? |
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| What place has 91% of all ice on the planet? |
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| Large, roughly circular dome of ice covering a mountain area |
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| Usually smaller irregular shaped area of ice. Peaks or nunataks are visable. |
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| A zone where Snow acumulation exceeds melt. |
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| Glacier loss exceeds accumulation |
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| Glacial Speed may vary with _________ and presence of _______? |
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| Land forms produced by sediment deposition. |
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| Melt water carried deposits |
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| Till Plain, outwash plain, esker, kame, drumlin |
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| Landforms on the margins of glaciers. |
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| Periglacial Landscapes form ____% of earths land serface. |
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| seasonally frozen layer above permafrost solifluction and gelifluction. |
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| Change in orientation of earths axix to sun, axial tilt, and shape of orbit occurs over time. This corresponds to ice ages. |
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| a hexagonal soil column 1 to 10 square meters. Basic sampling unit. |
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| Collection of similar pedons in an area. Unit for soil mapping |
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| Various distinct layers seen in a pedon |
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| Mixture of decomposing organic matter at the surface |
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| Clay and Humus important for chemical links with plants |
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| Slicate clays, alluminum, oxides, and iron oxides are leached downward. Zone of elluviation(translocation) |
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| Accumulate clays, aluminum and iron in zone of illuviation (Translocation) |
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| The A, E, and B horizons constitute the true soil of the pedon. |
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| Weathered Parent material or regolith |
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| Chart used for soil color |
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| Cohesion of particals (wet, moist, dry) |
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| Various properties control movement of water. |
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| Field capacity important to plants |
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| Acidic soil will have a ___ pH value |
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| Alkaline soil will have a _____ pH value |
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| _____% of farmlands are losing soil faster than it can form |
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| Appearance, form, and structure of soil seen in the field |
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| Leaching in humid and warm climates |
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| Illuviated collection of calcium |
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| acidification associated with cool climates |
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| accumulation of humus and water, saturated gray clay in cold wet climates |
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| most significant agricultural soils |
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| Sun, gas, water, mineral cycles |
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| producers, consumers, decomposers |
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| dry weight of organic material |
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| Measured as grams of fixed carbon per sq. meter per year |
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| Change in plant communities with altitude |
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| Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle |
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| Create own food source from carbon (Plants) |
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| Primary consumer. Eat plants |
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| Secondary consumer. Eat herbivores |
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| Organisms sharing the same foods are on the same ____________. |
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| A complex network of interconnected food chains |
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| first plants that occupy a new space |
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