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Which resources are not replaced by natural resources?
Nonrenewable
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Which fuels are formed from prehistoric fossils?
Fossil Fuels
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Which event required large amounts of fossil fuels?
The industrial Revolution
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What was the major fuel source for two centuries?
Coal
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What is the cleanest burning fossil fuel?
Natural Gas
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What are petrochemicals?
fertilizers, carpet, etc.
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Which type of energy harnesses escaping steam from the earth?
geothermal
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What are aerogenerators?
Wind
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What is the combination of physical and biological environments?
ecosystem
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Which environment consists of those things that are inorganic?
Physical Environment
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Which environment consists of those things that are organic?
biological
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What is the area where all life exists?
biosphere
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What consists of land, freshwater, and saltwater?
Biocycles
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What is the abiility of plants and animals to adjust to their environment?
Adaption
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What is a common characterisitic in the first 2-3 stages of a river's life?
cutting down into the earth
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What characterisitc does a river take on in its later stages?
It begins to meander
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In which stage does rapids, waterfalls, and natural lakes appear?
Early youth
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In which stage does an ox bow appear?
Late maturity
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In which do deltas form and the river reaches sea level?
old age
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What is an area that is flooded for at least one half of the year?
Wetlands
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What is an aquifer?
Underground water that travels
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What is found above ground water and must be penetrated to get to it?
Water table
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What is one continuous body of water found on the earth's surface?
Ocean
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Shallowest part of the ocean?
Continental Shelf
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What contains every known element on the earth?
Sea Water
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What is the difference between GDP and GNP?
- GDP is only those goods and services inside a country.
- GNP is the total value of those goods and services.
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Why are consumer goods important?
They expand manufacturing
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What is the percentage of people who can read or write?
Literary rate
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How many people work in agriculture in developed countries?
1/2
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What is the orderly transferal from one plant community to the other?
Natural/Plant succesion
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What is the climax community?
What is one for this area?
A type of vegetation in final stage of succession.
Decidiuous.
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What are the base minerals of soil?
- NITROGEN
- PHOSPHOROUS
- POTASSIUM
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What is rot?
Rapid decomposition
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What's Decay?
Slow composition
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What is the down percolation of minerals into soil?
Leaching
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Which soil type is found in the tropics and does not have base minerals?
Laterization
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Which soil type is called Black Earth because it is very RICH?
Calcification
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What is desalinization?
Why is it not feasible?
Changing salt water to freshwater.
Way too expensive..
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What builds up to cause global warming?
CO2
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When did the ice ages occur?
When CO2 was low.
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What is watershed?
area of land drained by a river
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How much of the hydrosphere is freshwater?
Less than 1%
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What is a snowmelt river?
An example?
Snowmelt from mountains.
Colorado River.
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What is a confluence river?
Example?
Confluence of two smaller rivers.
The Ohio.
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