Intro to Env Science Terms Final Review

The application of force over distance

Devices that use ongoing electrochemical reactions to produce an electric current.

The physical breakup of rocks into smaller particles without a change in chemical composition

A clay soil is considered what hydrologic soil type?

Any discarded material, liquid, or solid that contains substances known to be fatal to humans.

Term for short-lived and local patterns of temperature and moisture.

____ supply 88 percent of world commercial energy needs.

Well planned developments that make efficient and effective use of land resources.

Discharge pollution from specific locations such as drain pipes, ditches or sewer outfalls.

___law consists of documents or laws voted and enacted by the legislative branch of government.

Porous layers of sand, gravel, or rock lying below the water table.

A landfill in which garbage and municipal waste are buried each day with soil or fill.

Set national water quality goals and created pollutant discharge permits.

The ability to obtain food on a day to day basis.

Replacing a damaged wetland with a substitute

Term to describe the steady flow of varied wastes that we produce.

Rivers and lakes that have clear water and low biological productivity

Uses chemical, physical, or biological methods to remove pollution.

The seven major pollutants identified and regulated by the Clean Air Act.

A collection of rural households linked by culture, custom, family ties, and assoc.  with land.

Reprocessing of discarded materials into new, useful products.

The layer of air immediately adjacent to the earth's surface.

A naturally occurring, inorganic, solid element or compound with reg internal crystal structure

Precipitation that percolates through the soil and into fractures and spaces of permeable rocks

Protected threatened and endangered species, directed FWS to prepare recovery plans.

Emissions that do not go through a smokestack.

Wastewater Treatment plant step that consists of biological degradation of dissolved organics.

An urban area with greater than 10 million in habitants.

Soil is made up of all but the following

Measure of energy produced compared to energy consumed.