Summary: Environmental Science | Tyler Miller, et al

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  • 1 Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

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  • 1.1.2 Sustainability Is the Central Theme of This Book

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  • What is nutrient cycling?

    The circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment (mostly from soil and water) through organisms and back to the environment.
  • 3 Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?

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  • 3.3 What Happens to Energy in an Ecosystem?

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  • What is Gross Primary Productivity?

    The rate at which an ecosystem’s producers (usually plants) convert solar energy into chemical energy in the form of biomass found in their tissues.
  • What is Net Primary Productivity?

    The rate at which producers use photosynthesis to produce and store chemical energy minus the rate at which they use some of this stored chemical energy through aerobic respiration.
  • 8 Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach

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  • 8.1 What Role Do Humans Play in the Premature Extinction of Species?

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  • What are endangered species?

    A species that has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct over all or most of its natural range
  • 11 Water resources and water pollution

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  • 11.1 Will We Have Enough Usable Water?

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  • What is surface water?

    The freshwater from precipitation and snowmelt that flows across the earth's land surface and into lakes, wetlands, streams, rivers, estuaries, and ultimately to the oceans.
  • What is a watershed or drainage basin?

    The land from which surface water drains into a particular river, lake, wetland or other body of water.
  • What is reliable surface runoff?

    The annual surface runoff that is available for human use.
  • 11.4 How Can We Reduce the Threat of Flooding?

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  • What is a floodplain?

    Water that overflows a stream and spills into the adjacent area.
  • 11.5 How Can We Deal with Water Pollution?

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  • What is cultural eutrophication?

    A process when human activities accelerate eutrophication.
  • What is a septic tank?

    A settling tank that partially treats wastewater.

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