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Intro to Ag Science
Use of Natural Resources, Pollution, and Standard Measurements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Environment | factors that effects a living things ability to live |
| Ecosystem | includes a particular environments parts. (soil, climate, plant life,etc.) |
| Conservation | an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its forests, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity |
| Water table | the level at which the groundwater pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure. |
| Pollution | the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. |
| Recycling | involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials |
| Biodegradable | Capable of being broken down into its constituent elements by natural processes. Used to describe "environmentally friendly" products. |
| Mile | a unit of length in a number of different systems. In contemporary English, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 1,609.344 meters (5,280.0 feet) or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters (about 6,076.1 ft). |
| Acre | One acre comprises 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet |
| International System of Units | the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system devised around the convenience of the number ten. |
| Linear | comes from the Latin word linearis, which means created by lines |
| Area | a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. |
| Volume | any solid, liquid, gas, plasma, theoretical object, or vacuum is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically |
| Weight | the magnitude, W, of the force that must be applied to an object in order to support it (i.e. hold it at rest) in a gravitational field. |