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The water and human wastes that are washed down sinks toilets and showers are known as

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Sewage

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Water that is tired in layers of soil and rock beneath earths surface is called

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Groundwater

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Chemicals that kill crop destroying organisms are known as

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Pesticides

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Water that causes erosion picks up blank or particles of sand and rock

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Sediments

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About 97 percent of water on earth is

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Salt water

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Water that causes erosion picks up

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Sediments

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The water and human wastes that are washed down sink showers and toilets are called

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Sewage

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Chemicals that kill crop destroying organisms are called

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Pesticides

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Most water pollution of the result of

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Human activities

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Blank wastes agriculture wastes including animal wastes fertilizers and pesticides into ponds causing algae to grow

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Rain washed

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Wastes produced by agriculture households industry mining and other human activities can end up in

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Water

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Blank is stored in souk and rock beneath earths surface

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Groindwater

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Blank requires effective cleanup of oil and gasoline spill proper sewage treatment and reduction of pollinates

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Keeping water clean

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Most communities treat blank before returning it to the environment

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Sewage

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Where do wetlands form

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They form in places where water is trapped in low areas or where groundwater seeps trough the surface

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How are wetland important to migrating birds

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They are home to many that are migrating during winter

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Why do wetlands have a rich supply of nutrients

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Dead leaves and other plants and animals materials serve as natural fertilizers

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What are three common types of freshwater wetlands

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Marshes
Swamps
Bogs

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Describe two ways that wetlands are important to living things

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Shelter

Supply nutrients

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What impact has human development had on the Florida Everglades

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Use for farm lands

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Which of the following wetlands would have a large number of cats told and grasslike plants

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Marsh

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Which wetlands would have a great many tress and be in a humid climate

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Swamp

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Where would mangrove trees grow

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Coastal wetlands

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Which of te following is not an effect of human development on the Everglades

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Poco sins

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Some wetlands dry up during long hot summers and fill up during

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Spring rain

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Sometimes called the river of grads blank is a vast wetland

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Florida Everglades

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A poco sin is a type of

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Big

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A wetland that contains both fresh and salt water is called

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Coastal wetland

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Wetlands affect climate by making them more

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Moderate

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Two important roles of wetland are to control floods and act as

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Natural water filters

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Describe how convection transfers heat and materials in earths mantle

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It causes material to rise and then sink to the mantel

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What are the three types of boundaries between earths tectonic plants

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Convergent
Divergent
Transform

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What are convection currents in mantle responsible for reshooting earths surface

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When plates seperate pass each other crash into each other

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What causes earthquakes

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Mantle convection

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How are volcanoes formed

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Subduction plates cause partial melting forming lawr the magma later rises forming volcanoes

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How are ocean basins formed

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When there are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

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What changes happen fast and which happe slow

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Basin slow

Earthquakes fast

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Earthquakes can form along blank boundaries

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Transform

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Convection currents in earths blank transfer heat and materials to the surface

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Mantle

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The crust is the blank layer of the earth

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Coolest

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Tectonic plates make up earths

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Lithosphere

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Convection currents blank move tectonic plates across earth

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Slowly

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Convection work because of a fluids blank changes as it’s temperature rises and falls

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Density

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What might be found along a divergent boundary

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Volcanoes

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What explains how convection currents work

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As a fluids temperature increases it’s density decreases

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Which of the following is not a cause of earths internal heat

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Heat leftover from earths transformation

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Which of the following is likely to from volcanic mountains

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Molten material rises between two divergent plates

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