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Biome
Are areas that have distinctive climates and organisms
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Drought-resistance
Plants can live through the worst desert conditions
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Estuary
An ecosystem in which fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean
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Permafrost
Frozen soil at or below the freezing point of water
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Wetlands
Area of land coverd by water for at least part of the year
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Groundwater
Water that seeps down from the soil and it's stored underground
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Point Pollution
Pollution discharged from a single source, such as from a factory or wastewater treatment plant
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Non-point pollution
Pollution that comes from many sources rather then a single specific site. Such as pollution that reaches a body of water from streets and sewers
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Thermal pollution
addition of execessivie amounts of heat to a body of water such as in run off from industral cooling systems
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Watershed
entire areaof land drains into a river
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Acid precipition
Highley acidic rain, sleet, or snow that results from the release of oxides of sulfur and nitrogen into the air from burning fossil fules
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Acid Shock!!
Sudden influx of acid water caused by melting acidic snow that rush into lakes and streams. Large abount of fish and amphibions and affecting the offspring of others
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Sick-building syndrome
(Ashley hates this)
is a combination of ailments
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Smog
Air pollution over urban areas that reduce visibilty combination of the word "smoke" and "fog"
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Radon
It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas
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