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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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phreatophytes
Environment; Environmental conservation
Plants that send their roots into or below the capillary zone to use ground water.
physical weathering
Environment; Environmental conservation
Breaking down of parent rock into bits and pieces by exposure to temperature and changes and the physical action of moving ice and water, growing roots, and human activities such as farming and ...
piezometroc surface
Environment; Environmental conservation
The imaginary surface to which groundwater rises under hydrostatic pressure in wells or springs.
plate tectonics
Environment; Environmental conservation
Refers to the folding and faulting of rock and flow of molten lava involving lithospheric plates in the earth's crust and upper mantle.
pleistocene
Environment; Environmental conservation
The earlier of the two epochs of the Quaternary period, starting 2 to 3 million years before the present and ending about 10,000 years ago. It was a time of glacial activity.
point source
Environment; Environmental conservation
Source of pollution that involves discharge of wastes from an identifiable point, such as a smokestack or sewage treatment plant. Compare nonpoint source.
