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Botany : Environmental Issues

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Algae Blooms: Sudden sprout of algae growth, which can affect the water quality adversely and indicate potentially hazardous changes in local water chemistry.

 

Atmosphere: A major regional community of plants and animals with similar life forms and environmental conditions.

 

Biodegradable waste: Organic waste, typically coming from a plant or animal sources, which other living organisms can break done.

 

Biosphere: The portion of earth and its atmosphere that can support life.

 

Effluent: Liquid waste such as sewage and liquid waste from industries.

 

Landfill: A site that is specially designed to dispose of waste and operates with a license granted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

 

Oil spill: The harmful release of oil into the environment, usually through water, which is very difficult to clean up and often kills, birds, fish and other wildlife.

 

Radiation: A form of energy that is transmitted in waves, rays or particles from a natural source such as the sun and the ground or an artificial source such as an X-ray machine.

 

Radioactive: A materials is said to be radioactive if it emits radiation.

 

Recycle: To break waste items done into their raw materials, which are then used to remake the original item or to make new items.

 

Sewage: Liquid waste from communities which may be a mixture of domestic effluent from homes, and liquid waste from industries.

 

Sustainable development: Development using hand of energy sources in a way that meets the needs of people today without reducing the ability in future generation to meet their own needs.


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