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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equipotential surface

Environment; Environmental conservation

A surface in a three-dimensional ground-water flow field such that the total hydraulic head is the same everywhere on the surface.

equivalent weight

Environment; Environmental conservation

The formula weight of a dissolved ionic species divided by the electrical charge. Also known as combining weight.

erosion

Environment; Environmental conservation

The wearing away of the land surface by running water, wind, ice, or other geological agents including such processes as gravitational creep. Geological erosion is natural occurring erosion over ...

escarpment

Environment; Environmental conservation

The topographic expression of a fault.

estuarine waters

Environment; Environmental conservation

Deepwater tidal habitats and tidal wetlands that are usually enclosed by land but have access to the ocean and are at least occasionally diluted by freshwater runoff from the land (such as bays, ...

estuarine zone

Environment; Environmental conservation

Area near the coastline that consists of estuaries and coastal saltwater wetlands.

estuary

Environment; Environmental conservation

Thin zone along a coastline where freshwater system(s) and river(s) meet and mix with a salty ocean (such as a bay, mouth of a river, salt marsh, lagoon).