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- Dichotomous
- Divided or dividing into two parts or classifications.
- Embroyology
- The Branch of biology dealing with the fevelopment of living things from fertiliezed egg to its developed state.
- Environment
- The total of the surroundings (air, water, soil, vegetation, people, wildlife) infliencing each living being's existence, including physical, biolofical and all other factors; the surroundings of a plant or animals including other plants or animals, climate and location
- Hazardous Waste
- A solid that, because of its quantity or concentration or its phyicale, chemical or infectious characterstics, may couse or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human helth or the enviruonment when improperlyu treated, stored, transported or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
- Hydrology
- The scientific study of the properties, distribution and eddects of water on earth's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks and in the atmostphere.
- Engineering
- The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life.
- Endangered species
- A species that is in danger of extinction ethroughout all or a signigicant portion of its range
- Extinction
- The compleate elimination of a species for the earth.
- Hypothsis
- An assertion subtract to verification or proof as a premise from which a conclusion in drawn.
- Information technology
- The technial means that humans create to store and transmit information
- Evolution
- A process of change that explains why what we see today is different from what existed in the past; it includes changes in the galaxies, stars, solar system, earth and life on earh. Biological evolution is a change in hereditary characteristics of grouips of organisms over the course of generations.
- Delineate
- To trace the outline; to draw; to sketch; to depict or picture.
- Desalinization
- To remove salts and other chemicals from sea or saline water.
- Geologic map
- A representation of region of rock units and the occurrences of structural features, mineral deposits and fossils localities).
- Incinerating
- Burning to to ashes; reducing to ashes
- Enzyme
- A protein that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being changed by the reaction; an organic catalyst
- Ergonomical
- Of or relating to the design of equipment or devices to fit the human body's control, position, movement and environment.
- Homesstasis
- The tendency for a system to remain in a state of equilibrim by resisting change
- Ecosystem
- A community of living organisms and their interrelated physical and chemical environment
- Construcion technology
- The ways that humans build structures on sites.
- Fact
- Information that has benn objevctively verified.
- Geologic hazard
- a naturally occurring or man-made condition or phenomeon that presents a risk or is a potential danger to life and property (e.g., landslides, floods, earthquakes, ground subsidence, Coastal and beach erosion, faulting, dam leakage and failure, mining disasters, pollution and waste disposal, sinkholes.)
- Decomposer
- An organism, often microsopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead oraganic matter, thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms; examples of decomposers include fungi, scavengers, rodents and other animals.
- Equilibrium
- The ability of an exosystem to maintain stability among its biological resources (e.g., forest, fisheries, crops) so that there is a steady optimim yield.
- Electornic comunication
- System for the transmission of information using electionic technology (e.g., digital cameras, cellular telephones, internet, television, fiber optics).