List 3 Flashcards
Conservation
Be careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion depressor station protection the preservation protection of a natural environment
Ecosystem services
The benefit people obtain from ecosystems clean water food climate read camping hiking trails natural resources such as timber for homebuilding
Water cycle
The continuous process by which water moves from earth surface to the atmosphere and back
Evaporation
Process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas
Condensation
Process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Precipitation
Water vapor that has Condon send involves back to earth as rain snow sleet hail
Groundwater
Water that travels below earths surface
Surface runoff
Water that travels across earths surface through streams and rivers
Carbon cycle
Producers take in carbon dioxide from the air during photosynthesis they use carbon dioxide to make food molecules
Nitrogen cycle
Describes how nitrogen moves between plants animals bacteria the atmosphere f and the soil in the ground