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increases the concentration of dissolved minerals in the remaining water What is evaporation?
Water(in any form) that falls to the Earth from the atmosphere What is precipitation?
The conversion of water vapor into water What is condensation?
Water loss by a plant through evaporation. What is transpiration?
What is respiration/perspiration? Water loss by animals Daily Double What is respiration/perspiration?
Where most of the world’s freshwater is located. What is ice caps, glaciers, polar ice?
The percent of the world’s water that is freshwater. What is 2.5%?
The movement of surface water to lakes and rivers. What is runoff?
The largest groundwater deposit in the world What is Ogallala Aquifer?
Result of aquifer depletion. What is saltwater intrusion or subsidence/sinkholes?
Smallest particle size in soil What is clay?
What is mineral matter or weathered rock? 45% of soil is made of this What is mineral matter or weathered rock?
Type of soil that water drains quickly through. What is sand?
The removal of dissolved minerals from the soil as water moves downward Daily Double! What is leaching??
The soil layers in order from top to bottom What is OAEBCB?
Profitable rock that yields metals What is an ore?
Most common type of mining. What is surface mining?
process in which ore is melted at high temps to separate impurities from the molten metal What is smelting?
Process that removes toxins from the soil. What is phytoremediation?
Waste from manufacturing processes. What is pre-consumer or internal waste?
Law that forces government to sell public land leases to private investors at bargain prices What is 1872 Mining Law?
Released during smelting and contributes to acid rain What is sulfur?
mineral deposits that have been identified and are currently profitable to extract What is a reserve?
The most recycled item What is paper?
Potentially profitable in the future, what we’d mine from the deep ocean. What are manganese nodules?
Study of adverse chemical effects on health. What is toxicology?
Begins with an essentially lifeless area with no soil What is primary succession?
A species’ role in their ecosystem. What is a niche?
What is an R-strategist? Type of strategist with high birth rates, little parental care, reproduce quickly, have cyclic growth rates, generalists species, J curve growth rate What is an R-strategist?
Name one of 3 factors that determine which biome is present in an area What is climate, latitude, altitude?
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