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Environmental conservation
Terms related to protecting natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.
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biosphere
Environment; Environmental conservation
The portion of Earth and its atmosphere that can support life. The part (reservoir) of the global carbon cycle that includes living organisms (plants and animals) and life- derived organic matter ...
glacial blation
Environment; Environmental conservation
All processes, which include melting, evaporation (sublimation), wind erosion, and calving (breaking off of ice masses), that remove snow or ice from a glacier or snowfield. The term also refers to ...
collector well
Environment; Environmental conservation
A well located near a surface water supply used to lower the water table and thereby induce infiltration of surface water through the bed of the water body to the well.
colloids
Environment; Environmental conservation
Finely divided solids which will not settle but which may be removed by coagulation or biochemical action.
commercial water use
Environment; Environmental conservation
Water for motels, hotels, restaurants, office buildings, other commercial facilities, and institutions. The water may be obtained from a public supply or may be self supplied.
common-ion effect
Environment; Environmental conservation
The decrease in the solubility of a salt dissolved in water already containing some of the ions of the salt.
completion
Environment; Environmental conservation
Sealing off access of undesirable water to the well bore by proper casing and/or cementing procedures.
