Ch8

Question 0

The top layer or dead leaves

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Litter

Question 1

Is anything that occurs naturally in the environment that occurs naturally in the environment and is used by people

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Natural resources

Question 2

Second layer is a mixture of rock fragments nutrients water air and decaying animal and plant matter

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Topsoil

Question 3

The third layer also contains rock fragments. Water and air but has less animal and plant matter than the topsoil

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Subsoil

Question 4

The last layer that makes up earths crust natural processes such as freezing and thawing Gradually break apart the bedrock

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Bedrock

Question 5

The process by which water wind or ice moves particles of rocks or soil is called

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Erosion

Question 6

When the soil becomes less fertile

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Nutrient depletion

Question 7

Includes nutrients that help crops grow better

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Fertilizers

Question 8

The advance of deserlike conditions into areas that previously were fertile is called

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Desertification

Question 9

Is a period when less rain then normal falls in an area

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Drought

Question 10

The process of restoring an area of land to amore productive state

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Land reclamation

Question 11

People cut down wood land to Harvey timber or clear the land for farms or ranches

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Deforestation

Question 12

Large area of land are developed as more and more people move to cities and suburbs

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Urbanization

Question 13

Pollutants or

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Emissions

Question 14

Is a thick brown haze formed when certain gases in te air react with sunlight

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Photochemical smog

Question 15

Form of oxygen which is toxic and is the major chemical found in smog

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Ozone

Question 16

When a layer of warm air prevents the rising air from escaping

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Temperate inversion

Question 17

Precipitation that is more acidic than normal because of air pollution

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Acid rain

Question 18

A colorless odorless gas that is radioactive

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Radon

Question 19

A layer of the upper atmosphere about 15-30 kilometers above earth

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Ozone layer

Question 20

Are human made gases that contain chlorine and fluorine

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Chlorofluorocarbons

Question 21

Streams and smaller rovers that feed into main rivers are called

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Tributaries

Question 22

The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a

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Watershed

Question 23

A lake that stores water for human use is called a

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Reservoir

Question 24

Over time nutrients can build up in the lake in a process called

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Eutrophication

Question 25

Materials that sand and gravel allow water to pass through they are known as

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Permeable

Question 26

Meaning water can’t pass through it

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Impermeable

Question 27

The top water zine is called the

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Unsaturated zone

Question 28

The level where the pries in the ground are saturated with water

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Saturated zone

Question 29

The top of the saturated zine is the

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Water table

Question 30

Any underground layer or permeable rock or sediment that Hilda water and allows it to flow is called

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Aquifer

Question 31

Water rises on its own because of pressure within an aquifer

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Artesian zone