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| rasing animals, and crops |
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| in which large fertilizers boosted plant growth and pesticides controlled cropdamaging insects |
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| the development of highly productive crop strains and the use of the modern agriclutural techniques to increase yields of food crops |
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| resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable |
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| resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable |
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| resource that can't be repunished by natural processes |
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| using natural resources at a rate that does not deplete them |
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| wearing away of surface soil by water and wind |
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| in areas with dry climates, a process caused by a combination of poor farming practices, overgrazing, and drought that turns productive land into desert. |
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| the raising of aquatic organisms for human consumption |
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| a mixsture of chemicals that occurs as a gray-brown haze in the atmosphere |
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| is a harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land air and water |
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| rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids |
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| is the sum total of the genetcally based variety of all organisms in the biosphere |
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| is the sum total of the genetcally based variety of all organisms in the biosphere |
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| includes the variety of habitats communities and ecological proscesses in the living world |
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| includes the variety of habitats communities and ecological proscesses in the living world |
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| refers to the number of differ. species in the biosphere |
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| refers to the sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living on earth today |
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| refers to the sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living on earth today |
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| refers to the sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living on earth today |
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| refers to the sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living on earth today |
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| occurs when a species disappears fronm all or part of its range. |
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| development often splits ecosystems into pieces |
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| concentrations of a harmful substance increase in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web |
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| species that are introduced into new habitats |
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| is used to describe the wise management of of natural resource |
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| atmospheric layer in which ozone gas is relativly concentrated |
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| where the suns rays gets trapped in the earth's atmosphere which warms up the earth |
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