List 3 Flashcards

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Conservation

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Be careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion depressor station protection the preservation protection of a natural environment

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Ecosystem services

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The benefit people obtain from ecosystems clean water food climate read camping hiking trails natural resources such as timber for homebuilding

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3
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Water cycle

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The continuous process by which water moves from earth surface to the atmosphere and back

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4
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Evaporation

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Process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas

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5
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Condensation

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Process by which a gas changes to a liquid

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6
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Precipitation

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Water vapor that has Condon send involves back to earth as rain snow sleet hail

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7
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Groundwater

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Water that travels below earths surface

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Surface runoff

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Water that travels across earths surface through streams and rivers

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9
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Carbon cycle

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Producers take in carbon dioxide from the air during photosynthesis they use carbon dioxide to make food molecules

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10
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Nitrogen cycle

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Describes how nitrogen moves between plants animals bacteria the atmosphere f and the soil in the ground

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