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Ecology
Term | Definition |
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Renewable | Does not pollute the air or water. |
Solar Energy | Energy from the sun. |
Wind Energy | Is produced by the movement of air and converted into power for human use. |
Water Energy | Is a clean renewable and reliable energy source. |
Biomass Energy | Is any organic matter that can be used as an energy source. |
Geothermal Energy | Is heat that is underground. |
Fuel | Anything that produces energy, power, or heat. |
Nonrenewable | It can't be made again. |
Fossil Fuels | Essentially remains of plant and animal. |
Conservation | Official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources. |
Pollution | Introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. |
Pollutants | Any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, or water. |
Air Pollution | Introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. |
Water Pollution | Harmful chemicals to natural water. |
Contour Plowing | Ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion. |
Windbreaks | Something that protects an area from the wind. |
Crop Rotation | The successive planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil fertility and help control insects and diseases. |
Fallow | Land plowed and left unseeded for a season or more uncultivated. |
Conservation Plowing | A soil conservation method in which the dead stalks from the previous year's crop are left in the ground to hold the soil. |