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| Rainfall that contains toxic chemicals that have escaped into the air from burning fossil fuels |
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| Green water plants; any of a large group of aquatic organisms that contain chlorophyll and produce the majority of food and oxygen in water environments. |
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| Contains large amounts of groundwater that feed into wells and springs |
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| Large group of microscopic organisms of many different shapes, generally without chlorophyll. |
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| Best Management Practices |
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| Green photosynthetic matter found in most plants |
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| A bacteria carried in human and animal wastes |
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| The act of fulfilling an official requirement, following laws and regulations |
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| mixture of soil and decayed organic matter used for fertilizing land |
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| branch of science concerned with the environment |
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| Environmental Protection Agency |
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| Gradual wearing down of land by water, wind, melting snow. |
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| too many nutrients too little oxygen |
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| Arrangement of organisms in an ecological community according to the order of predation |
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| The supply of fresh water found beneath the earth's surface |
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| environment in which a plant or animal normally lives and grows |
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| Soft, bluish-gray poisonous metal. |
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| A heavy silver-white poisonous metallic element. |
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| A protective covering spread or left on the ground |
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| of or pertaining to a particular city |
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| Pollution that cannot be traced to a specific origin or starting point. Example: run off from farm fields or golf courses. |
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| substances that nourish or promote growth |
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| Of,or relating to living things |
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| An agent used to destroy insects and other pests |
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| Pollution discharged into waterbodies from specific identifiable pipes or points. Example- water treatment plant |
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| Solid, liquid or gaseous substances that contaminate the environment |
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| A deposit on earth in the form of hail rain sleet or snow. |
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| Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid |
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| Poisonous substances harmful to living things. |
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| Thick or cloudy with with sediment. |
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| A region or area that ultimately drains to a particular body of water. |
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| Get 25 ml of water, drop 2 drops of activator solution and mix, break ampoule, allow bubble to travel to mix for two minutes, compare to color on comparator. |
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| What kind of fish found in water with a DO of less than 3 ppm? |
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| Quick formula for converting from C to F |
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| pH is measured on a scale of |
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| Where do many nitrates come from |
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| The enviroscape model is an example of a |
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| One environmental water concern on a large scale is the dead zone in the |
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| Fill tube with water. Lower water level until you can see the black and white pattern on bottom, do this 3 times. |
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