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| deep water zone of the ocean |
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| bacteria that require oxygen to live |
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| soil deposited by moving water |
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| bacteria that live in the absence of oxygen |
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| the amount of forage that is required to feed a 1,000 pound animal for a given period of time |
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| the oldest and hardest coal |
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| a cut on the side opposite and just above the undercut made when felling a tree |
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| any family of beetles, the larvae and adults of which burrow under the bark of trees, eating the inner bark |
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| ocean zone containing the continental slope and rise |
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| mound of soil built in a f field across the slope, designed to conduct surface runoff water safely to a dessired location |
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| most common type of coal, softer than anthracite |
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| Biological oxygen demand test, used to determine the amount of organic waste in water |
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| the process of cutting a tree into logs or poles |
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| caused by storms, hurricanes, and land slides |
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| natural resources that are owned by the group but really not owned by anyone - public lakes, the oceans, national forests, parks, the atmosphere, ect. |
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| person that enforces the game laws |
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| cultivation of a field with rows produced across the slope |
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| branches, limbs, twigs, and leaves that make up the top portion of a tree |
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| the process of estimating the pulpwood or lumber that a standing parcel of trees can produce |
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| vegetation in a grassland area that tends to be easily depleted by moderate grazing |
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| insects that remove the leaves from a tree by eating the leaf itself or the stem of the leaf |
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| any device used to measure the diameter of a tree trunk[image] |
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| hoisting apparatus used to hold an oil drilling machine[image] |
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| the removal of salt from water by turning the water into a vapor and then cooling, whereby the salt is left behind |
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| a coal mine where a passageway is bored into a hill or a mountain |
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| the study of the relationships among living things |
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| a community of interrelated plants and animals in a given environment |
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| removing salt from water by passing an electric current through the water |
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| pond where water is impounded behind and earth embankment or dam built across a water course |
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| ocean zone where light can penetrate |
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| an animal that consumes great amounts of food |
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| ferrous metals combined with iron to add various properties to steel |
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| the process of heating water and placeing it under pressure, which "flashes" it to boiling: the water is collected as fresh water |
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| a device using changes in the gravitational pull to find oil[image] |
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| the place or site an animal lives in |
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| a channel dug into the soil and designed to conduct surface runoff water safely to a desired location |
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| all of the physical surroundings of an organism |
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| constructing a pond by digging a pit below the surrounding ground level |
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| the process of determining the crop and livestock uses to which the various parts of a farm are to be put |
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| any obstacle, such as a road, creek, or ditch, that can help prevent the spread of fire |
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| the three things required for any forest fire: fuel, oxygen, and heat |
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| management procedure used to keep track of what fish species are in a pond or lake |
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| natural erosion that occurs over a long period of time, given a full and natural plant cover of the soil |
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| removal of any or all of the trees in an area for sale |
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| area over which an animal will repeatedly travel |
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| black or brown substance resulting from the decay of plant and animal matter |
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any device used to measure usable tree height [image] |
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| the temperature at which a given fuel will begin to burn, in the presence of oxygen |
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| a forest wildfire started intentionally or accidentally by a person |
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| the burning of waste material |
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| vegetation that tends to prosper under moderate grazing pressure |
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| harvests taken from a stand of trees before the trees reach planned maturity |
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| underwater waves caused by changes in temperature in the depths of the ocean |
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| the area of the ocean between high and low tide |
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| a temporary offshore drilling rig |
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| removal of dominant trees to allow younger or smaller trees to grow |
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| the zone of a lake that extends from the end of rooted vegetation to the point where sunlight no longer penetrates the water |
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| shallow water zone containing rooted vegetation |
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| fishing with a long line, up to 75 miles long with 2,000 hooks |
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| a method of mining, removing coal from one face and then transporting it by a conveyor |
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| process where salt water is sent through tubes heated by steam, then cooled to collect fresh water |
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| an oil-finding device employing the earth's magnetic pull |
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| an uncontrolled chain reaction in a nuclear reactor |
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| the filtering of salt from water through a series of filters |
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| water returned to earth in any form |
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| a gas released from the decomposition of wastes |
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| a device used to make methane gas from deomposed organic wastes |
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| the high biological zone that extends to the continental shelf |
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| the classification of the ocean in zones according to depth, temperature, pressure, or light |
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| stone containing crude oil |
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| speed at which a given quantity of water can be absorbed by the soil |
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| the deep water zone of a LAKE |
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| a property of some elements, such as uranium, of releasing alpha and beta rays by the disintegration of the atomic nuclei |
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| regional land-sue planning |
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| the political process of determining the uses to which the lands within a given geographic region can be put, normally a major area such as a group of countries or townships, or a large part of a state |
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| a device used to control flood waters |
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| a way of removing coal that employs the idea of leaving pillars of coal to help support the ceiling |
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| tiny projections, near the growing tip of a root, through which most of the water and nutrients are absorbed |
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| a biological waste disposal system that involves using bacteria to decompose sewage |
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| a coal mine with its access tunnel on a slope from the surface to the coal seam |
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| a coal mine with its access passageways vertical to the coal seam |
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| a device using sound waves to find oil |
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| dragging logs to the loading area |
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| windbreaks designed to protect crops and livestock from the wind |
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| a device that uses bacteria to decompose solid wastes |
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| a device used to keep a pond at a constant level |
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| an animal that eats a specialized diet |
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| the removal of coal near the surface by first removing the soil covering it |
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| the area of the ocean between low and high tide |
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| a method of using a natural resource in such a way that it can be used at a constant rate or for periodically repeated harvests indefinitely |
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| sand containing a low-grade oil |
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| the area an animal will defend, usually to its death |
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| the process of removing, nromally harvesting, part of the trees in a stand to provide room for other trees to grow |
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| the process of evaporation of water through the leaves of the tree |
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| when felling a tree, the removal of a slice of wood from the side of the tree in the direction the tree is to fall |
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| a distillation process in hich salt water is turned to steam and then placed under pressure. The steam starts a chain reaction that heart other water, and when it sondenses it falls to a bottom tank to be collected as fresh water |
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| a steep waterway lined with a materail such as concrete, designed to handle large volumes of rapidly moving runoff |
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| the land draining into a pond |
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| a ditch or berm designed to conduct surface runoff safely to a desried location |
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| a structre, usually vegetative, across the prevailing wind direction designed to reduce surface wind speed |
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| empty spaces, filled with air, between soil mineral paricles |
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| the most common catastrophic wave known |
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