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15 Cards in this Set
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Wildlife Refuge
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Areas set aside to protect wildlife
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Landscape Ecology
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The study of the reciprocal effects of spatial patterns on ecological processes
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Habitat Fragmentation
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When vegitation gaps expand until only small fragments remain
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Restoration Ecology
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Seeks to repair or reconstruct ecosystems that are damaged
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Rehabilitation
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Attempts to rebuild elements of an ecological system without necessarily achieving all restoration
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Remediation
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Cleaning chemical contaminents from a polluted area
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Reclamation
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Physical of chemical manipulations carried out in severely degrated sites
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Recreation
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Construction of a new biological community on a disturbed site
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Restoration
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Bringing something back to a former condition
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Floodplains
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Low lands along riverbanks, lakes, and coastlines that tend to get flooded
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Primary pollutants
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Released directly from source
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Secondary pollutants
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Modified a hazardous form after entering air
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Criteria pollutant
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A pollutant in which maximum ambient air levels are mandated
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Smog
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Photochemical pollution products or urban air pollution
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Aerosol
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Particles or droplets suspended in the air
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