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- Sustainiabilty
- the abilty tkeep in existence or mantain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained.
- Homeostasis
- The tendency for a system to remain in a state of equilibrium by resisting change.
- Open loop system
- A group of related ovjects that do not have feedback adn cannot modify themselves
- Engineering
- The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design prosses, products and structures that improve the quality of life
- Patterns
- Repeat prosses that are exhibited in a wide variety of ways; identifiable recurrecnces of the elemets and/or the form
- waste stream
- the flow of waste materials from generation collection and seperation to disposal
- Environment
- the total of teh surroundings (air water, soil, vegitation, people, wildlife) influencing each living being's exstence, including physical, biological and all other factors
- Regulation
- A rule or order issured by an executive authority or regulatory or regulatory agency of a government and having the force of law
- Model
- A description, analogy or representation of something that helps us understand it better (eg. a physical model)
- Equilibrium
- The ability of an ecosystem to maintain stability among its biological resources (e.g., forest, fisheries, crops) so that there is a stedy optimum yield
- Instructional Technology
- any mechanical aid (including computer technology) used to assist in or enhance to process of teaching and learning
- Ergonomical
- ofor relating to the design or equipment or devices to fit teh human body's control, position, movment and enviroment.
- Lentic
- Relating to or living still in water
- Stream order
- Energy and nutrient flow that increases as water moves the ocanes(Eg, the smallest stream (primary) that ends wehn rivers flow into oceans).
- Incinerating
- Burning to ashes; reducing to ashes
- Biochemical conversion
- The changing of organic matter into other chemical form
- Decomposer
- An organism, often microscopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead organic matter, thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms; examples of decomposer include Fungi, scavengers, rodents, and other animals
- Closing the loop
- a link in the circular chain of recycling events that promotes the use of porducts made with recycled materials.
- Dichotomous
- dicided or dividing into two parts or classifications
- Nonpoint source pollution
- Contamination that originates form many locations that all discharge into a location (Eg. Lake, Stream, Area)
- Lotic
- Relationg to or living in actively moving water
- Science
- Search for understanding the natural world using inquiry and experimentation
- Thertoy
- Systematically organized kanoledge appicable in a relativcely wide variety of circumstances; espechially a system of assumptions accuepted principles and ruels of procudese devised to analiyze predict of otherwise explane or bearvior of a specificed set of phenonona.
- Trophic Levels
- The role of an organism in nutrient and energy flow
- watershed
- the land area from which surface runoff drains into a stream, channel, lake, reservoir or other body of water, also called a drainage basin
- Biomass conversion
- the changer of organic matter that has been produced by photosynthesis into usful liquid, gas, or fuel
- commodities
- econimic goods or products before they are processed and/or given a brand name, such as a product of agriculture
- Biomes
- an enviromental factor related to or produced by living organisms
- Risk management
- A stategy developed to reduce or contorl he chance of harm or loss to one's helth or life; the porcess of iding evalutaion seleting and impleinting actions to ruduce risk to human life
- Allele
- Any of a set of possible forms of a gene
- Evolution
- A proscess of change that explains why waht we see today is difrent from the past; it includes changes in the galaxies, stars, solar system, earth and life on earth. Biological evolution is a change in hereditary charateristics of groups of orginisms over the course of generations.
- Geological Hazard
- A naturally occuring condition or phenomenon that presents a risk or is a potentaial danger to life and property (e.g., landslides, floods, earthquakes, ground subsidence, coastel and beach erosion faulting, dam leakage and failure, Mining disasters, pollution and waste disposal, sinkholes).
- Recycling
- Collecting and reprocessing a resoursce or product to make into new products.
- Scale
- Relates concepts and ideas to one another by some measurments (e.g, wuantitaitve, numaeal, abstract, ideological); provides a mesure of size and/or incremental change
- Mitosis
- The sequential differentation and segregation of repicalted chromosomes in a cell's nuclesu that preceds coplete cell division.
- Biotechnology
- The ways that humans apply biological concepts to produce products and provide services
- Transportaiton system
- A group of relaed parts that function together to proforme a major task in any form of transportation
- Point source pollition
- Pollitants discharged from a single identifyable location
- Electronic Communication
- system for the transmission of info using electronic technology (ie. Digital Cameras, cellular telephones, Internet, TV, Fiberobtics)
- Physical Tech
- The ways that humancs construct, manufacture and transport products
- Closed loop system
- A group of related obrjects that have feedback and can modify themselves
- Embryology
- the branch of biology dealing with the development of living things from fertilized eggs to its develped state.
- Shredder
- Through chewing and/or grinding, maicroorgamims feed on non-woody coarse particualte matter, primarily leaves
- Law
- Summerizing statmetn of observed experimental facts that has been tested many times and is generally accepted as true.
- Niche
- The role played be an organism in an ecosystem; its food prefrences, requerments for water, spechial behaviors
- Theroy of Ebolution (Wrong)
- A theroy that barious typs of animals and plants have there orighin in other, preecisting types and that the diffrences are due to modification in successive generations.
- Succession
- The series of changes that occur in an echosystem with the passing of time
- Tool
- Any devise used to extend human including computer-based tools
- Extinction
- the complete emlimination of a species from the earth
- Renewable
- A narurally occuring raw material or form of energy that will be repenished through natural ecological ecycles or sound managment practices.
- Radioactive isotope
- An atom that gices off nuclear radiation and has the same dumber of portons as another atom but diffrent nutrons,
- consumer
- 1. Those organisms that ovtain energy by feeding on other organisms adn their remains. 2. A person buying goods or services for personal needs or to use in the production of other goods for resale
- composting
- the porcess of mixing decaying leaves and other nutritve matter to improve and fertillize soil
- Delineant
- to trace the outline; to draw; to sketch; to depict or picture
- Topographic Map
- A representaiton of a region on a sufficient scale to show detail, selected man-made, adn natural featured of a portion of the land surface including it's relife and certain physicals adn cultural feartures.
- Information Technology
- the technical means that humans create to store and transmit information
- biotic
- an enviromental factor related to or porduced by living organisms
- System
- A group of related obthat work together to achieve a desired result.
- Nova
- A variable star that suddenly increases in brightness to several times its normal magnitude and returns to its original appearance in a few weeks to several months or years
- Carbon chemistry
- The science of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of carbon based matter, especially of atomic and molecular systems; sometimes referred to as organic chemistry
- Inquiry
- A systematic process for using knowledge and skills to acquire and apply new knowledge
- Enzyme
- A protein that increases the rate of a chrmical reaction without being changed by the the reaction; An organic catalyst.
- Endagered species
- a species that is in danger of extinction throughout all or of a significant portion of its range
- Technology education
- The tools, materials, processes adn eyetems to solve provlems and extend human capibilitys
- Hypothesis
- An assertion subject to verification or proof as a permise from which a conclusion is drawn
- Mitigation
- the policy of construction or creating man-made habitats, such as wetlands, to replace those lost to development
- ecosystem
- A community of living organisms and their interrelated physical and chemical environment
- Acid deposition
- Precipitation with a pH less than 5.6 that forms in the atmosphere when certain pollutants mix with water vapor
- Transportation Tech
- The phyiscal ways humans
- pest
- A label applied to an organism when it is in competion with humans for some resorses
- Hydrology
- The scientific study of the properties, distribution and effects of water on the earth's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks and in hte atmosphere
- Manufacturing Tech
- The ways that humans produce goods and products
- Biological diversity
- the varitey and complecity of species present and interacting in an ecosystem and the relative abundance of each.
- fact
- information that has been objectively verifiede.
- Hazardous waste
- A solid that becouse of it's quanity or concentration or its physical, chemical, or infectiouse chariacteristics, may casuse or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed
- Integrated Pest Management
- A variety of pest control methods that include repairs, traps, bait, poison, etc. to eliminate pests
- Nonrenewable Resources
- subtencese that once used cannot be replaced in a geological age
- Construction technology
- the ways that humans build structures on sites.
- abiotic
- a nonliving factor or element
- wetlands
- lands where water saturation is the dominant factor determining the nature of the soil development and the plant and animal communities (e.g., sloughs,esaturies,marshes).
- Subsystem
- A group of related objects that make up a larger system (Eg automobiles haved Eletric systems)
- Desalinization
- to remove salts and other chemicals from sea or saline water
- Biomedical technology
- the application of health care theories to develop methods, products and tools to maintain or improve homeostasis.