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| A type of off-stream water use. This water is consumed by plants and animals or in industrial processes or evaporates during use. It is not returned to its source. |
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| The removal of salts from seawater or brackish water so that the water can be used for purposes such as agriculture, industrial processes, or human consumption. |
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| Type of stream where flow is maintained during the dry season by ground water seepage into the channel |
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| Water found beneath the Earth's surface within the zone of saturation below water table |
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| Type of stream that is everywhere above the groundwater table and flows in direct response to percipitation; water from the channel moves down to water table, forming recharge mound. |
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| A type of water use that includes navigation, generation of hydroelectric power, fish and wildlife habitat, and recreation. |
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| Type of water use where water is removed from its source for a particular use. |
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| Use of water resources that does not harm the environment and proviedes for the existence of high-quality water for future generations. |
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| The amount of water neccessary to produce a product, such as rice or, in industry, an automobile |
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| Inputs and outputs of water for a particular system (a drainage basin, region, continent, or entire Earth) |
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| Pratices designed to reduce the amount of water we use |
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| A comprehensive term for landforms such as salt marshes, swamps, bogs, prairie potholes, and vernal pools. Their common feature is that they are wet at least part of the year and as a result have a particular type of vegetation and soil. |
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| are divided into renewable energy |
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| Nonrenewable alternative energy |
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| sources include nuclear energy and deep earth geothermal energy |
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| Passive solar energy systems |
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| do not use mechanical pumps |
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| Active solar energy systems |
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| to provide space heating or hot water |
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| convert sunlight directly into electricity |
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| are highly efficient power generating systems that produce electricity by combining fuel and oxygen |
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| makes use of energy within the earth |
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| is a form of stored solar energy that has been successfully harnessed |
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| like solar power, produce when different heat of earths surface creates air masses. |
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| Land that belongs to the public, not to individuals. Any resource owned publicly with public access for private uses |
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| Cost borne by the producer in obtaining, processing, and distributing a product. |
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| Involves persuading people and organizations to act in a way that benefits the enviornment within a democratic framework. |
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| Extranality (indirect costs) |
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| in economic, an efect not normally accounted for in the cost-revenue analysis. Cost and benefit does not show up in price tag. |
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| One you cannot touch directly, but people value it |
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| one you can touch, buy, and sell |
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| Ecological system that provide public service benefits |
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| Services ecosystem provide to humans and the environment |
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| The riskiness of a present action in terms of its possible outcomes is weighed against the benefit, or value of the action |
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| What we do, what we can do, and how we do it |
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| Through which the Environmental Protect Agency utility companies tradable allowances of polluting. |
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| Are partially composed vegetation; solid, brittle, carbonaceous rocks that is one of the world's most abundant fossil fuels. |
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| Naturally occuring petroleum, normally pumped from wells in oil fields. |
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| Forms of stored solar energy (plants convert solar energy to chemical energy through photosynthesis. |
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| A white ice like compound made up of molecules of methane gas trapped in "cages" of frozen water in the sediment of the deep seafloor. |
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| Naturally occuring gaseous hydrocarbon (methane) generally associated with crude oil or from gas wells. |
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| A fine-grained sedimentary rock containing organic material known as kerosene. |
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| Refers to the time in the future when one-half of the earth's oil has been exploited. Expected to occur between 2020 and 2050 |
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| A process of removing sulfur from gases emitted from power plans burning coal. The gasses are treated with slurry lime and limestone, and the sulfur oxides react with the calcium to form insoluble calcium sulfides and sulfates that are collected and disposed of. |
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| Synthetic fuels, which may by liquid or gaseous, derived from solid fuels, such as oil from kerosene in oil shale, or oil gas from coal. |
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| Sedimentary rocks or sands impregnated with tar oil, asphalt, or bitumen. |
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| Through which the Environmental Protect Agency utility companies tradable allowances of polluting. |
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| Are partially composed vegetation; solid, brittle, carbonaceous rocks that is one of the world's most abundant fossil fuels. |
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| Naturally occuring petroleum, normally pumped from wells in oil fields. |
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| Forms of stored solar energy (plants convert solar energy to chemical energy through photosynthesis. |
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| A white ice like compound made up of molecules of methane gas trapped in "cages" of frozen water in the sediment of the deep seafloor. |
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| Naturally occuring gaseous hydrocarbon (methane) generally associated with crude oil or from gas wells. |
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| A fine-grained sedimentary rock containing organic material known as kerosene. |
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| Refers to the time in the future when one-half of the earth's oil has been exploited. Expected to occur between 2020 and 2050 |
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| A process of removing sulfur from gases emitted from power plans burning coal. The gasses are treated with slurry lime and limestone, and the sulfur oxides react with the calcium to form insoluble calcium sulfides and sulfates that are collected and disposed of. |
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| Synthetic fuels, which may by liquid or gaseous, derived from solid fuels, such as oil from kerosene in oil shale, or oil gas from coal. |
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| Sedimentary rocks or sands impregnated with tar oil, asphalt, or bitumen. |
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