Environmental conservation

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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contaminant

Environment; Environmental conservation

Any substance that when added to water (or another substance) makes it impure and unfit for consumption or use.

contamination

Environment; Environmental conservation

The introduction into water of sewage or other foreign matter that will render the water unfit for its intended use.

The layer of the Earth that lies under continents and the continental shelves. It ranges in thickness from 35 to 60 km. Its upper layer has a density of 2. 7 g/cm3 and is composed of rocks that are ...

convection

Environment; Environmental conservation

Atmospheric or oceanic motions that are predominately vertical and that result in vertical transport and mixing of atmospheric or oceanic properties. Because the most striking meteorological ...

convective adjustment

Environment; Environmental conservation

A numerical procedure applied in many atmospheric models to approximate the vertical nonradiative heat transport. This procedure adjusts the lapse rate whenever necessary so that some prescribed ...

convergence

Environment; Environmental conservation

The quasi-horizontal flow of a fluid toward a common destination from different directions. When waters of different origins come together at a point or along a line (convergence line), the denser ...

conveyance (general)

Environment; Environmental conservation

The systematic and intentional flow or transfer of water from one point to another. Conveyance types include water instream conveyance, water distribution, and wastewater collection.