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Buzz Words Flashcards

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Bioaccumulate

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Gradual buildup of synthetic and organic chemicals in living organisms

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Birth Dearth

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Declining birth rates

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Green Revolution

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Development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides and fertilizers

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Chronic

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Disease that persists for a long time, lasting three months or more

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Pandemic

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An epidemic that is geographically widespread

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Emergent

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New properties that arise in each step upward in the hierarchy of life

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GMO

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genetically modified organisms, food derived from organisms whose DNA has been modified

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Rehabilitate

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Process of restoring a person to his or her highest possible level of physical, psychological, social or economic function

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Reclamation

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Turning former mine land into usable land

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First law of thermodynamics

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States that Energy cannot be created nor destroyed in an isolated system

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Second law of thermodynamics

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The entropy of any isolated system always increases

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NIMBY

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“Not in my backyard,” describes an opposition by residence to a proposal for new development

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IPM

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integrated pest management, used methods such as traps, disease-resistant plants, etc. to control pests

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Exotic organism

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When an organism occupies an area in which it did not evolve

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Grasshopper affect

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Pollutants evaporate into warmer climates air and travel on wind to cold areas

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Non-point source

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Source spread over an area where the origin cannot be identified

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Primary air standards

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Protect human health with adequate margin of safety

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Secondary air standards

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Protect public welfare from adverse effects of pollen

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Fugitive emissions

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Release of gas and vapor from pressurized equipment due to a leak

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Effluent

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Flowing out of water or gas from a natural body of water or human made structure

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Oxygen sag

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Oxygen levels decline downstream from a pollution source as decomposers metabolize waste materials

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Criteria pollutant

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Common pollutants

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Greenhouse gases

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Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane that are in the atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation

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Biomagnification

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Increased concentration of toxic chemicals in the tissues of organisms that are on the high end of the food web

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LD 50

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Lethal dose 50%, amount of a chemical that kills 50% of the animals in a test population

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Blue revolution

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Need to get water for drinking and crop irrigation for people who don’t have it

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Acute

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Disease with either or both; rapid onset or short course

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Endemic

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Native to an area, group, environment, field or geography

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GMF

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Genetically modified food

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Remediate

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Set straight or correct

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Reduce

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To bring down or to lesser extent

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Sustainable

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Capable of being maintained a steady rate

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BMP

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Basic metabolic panel, used to check the status of a persons kidneys and their electrolyte and acid-base balance

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Strategic metals and minerals

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Commodities your government decides necessary to have for emergency

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POP’s

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Persistent organic pollutants, chemical compounds that persist in the environment and retain biological activity for a long time

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Point source

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Single, identifiable localized source of something

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Synergistic effects

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Interaction of two or more agents that they’re combined effect is greater than the simple some of their individual effects

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Influent

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Water flowing into a stream in response to precipitation

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Eutrophic

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Addition of artificial or natural substances

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Ambient air

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Natural state of the air in the earths environment

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