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ENVIRO VOCAB
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| riparian areas | |
| water cycle | |
| watershed | |
| stream order | |
| diivide | |
| groundwater discharge / recharge | |
| uplands | |
| sewage | |
| point-source pollution | |
| non-point source pollution | |
| fecal coliforms | |
| B.O.D. | |
| preliminary sewage treatment | |
| primary sewage treatment | |
| secondary sewage treatment | |
| tertiary sewage treatment | |
| monitoring | |
| field experiments | |
| baseline data | |
| reference site | |
| treatment site / treatment | |
| biodiversity (3 kinds) | |
| habitat | |
| biome | |
| biotic | |
| abiotic | |
| ecosystem | |
| species richness | |
| species evenness | |
| Simpson's Index of Diversity | |
| keystone species | |
| invasive / exotic species | |
| chemical control | |
| mechanical control | |
| biological control | |
| canopy | |
| understory | |
| forest floor | |
| anatomy of trees | crown, trunk, roots |
| 5 layers of wood | outer bark phloem / inner bark cambium layer xylem / sapwood heartwood |
| springwood | |
| summerwood | |
| annual ring | |
| increment borer | |
| DBH / DBH tape | |
| clinometer | |
| crown class | |
| fixed plot | |
| variable plot | |
| basal area (calculation) | |
| BAF prism | |
| "in trees" and "borderline trees" | |
| stocking standard | |
| slope (chained) distance | |
| horizontal distance | |
| survey techniques / terms: random sampling | |
| survey techniques / terms: baseline | |
| survey techniques / terms: transect | |
| survey techniques / terms: quadrat | |
| survey techniques / terms: population | |
| survey techniques / terms: percent cover survey | |
| 5 wetland classes | |
| hydric soils | |
| hydrophytic plants | |
| hydrology | |
| water quality assessment pollution tolerant vs. pollution intolerant | |
| CPOM | |
| FPOM | |
| functional feeding groups (4) |