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testes
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Suspeneded in scrotum produces androgens testosterone facial hair heavy bones stimulates male sex drive produces sperm
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What's Pesticide Cons?
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Genetic rsistance, ecosystem imbalance, pesticide treadmill persistence, bioaccumulation, biological magnification.
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What's Natural Pest Control?
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Better agricultural pactrices, genetically resistant plants, natural enemies, biopesticides,sex atractants.
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What's Electricity is generated by?
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Using steam (from water boiled by fossil fuels or nuclear) or fallig water to turn a generator.
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What's Petroleum Forms From?
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Microscopic aquatic organisms in sediments coverted by heat pressure into a mixture of hydrocarbons
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What's Pros of Petroleum?
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cheap, easily transported, high quality energy.
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What's Cons of Petroleum?
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Reserves depleted soon, pollution during drilling, transport and refining, burning makes CO2
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What's Steps in Coal Formation?
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Peat, lignite, bituminous, anthracite.
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What's Major Parts of Nuclear Reactors?
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Core, control rods, steam generator, turbine, containment building
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What's Two Most Nuclear Accidents:
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(Chernoyl, Ukraine)(Three Mile Island, PA)
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What's Alternate Energy Sources?
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Wind, solar, waves, biomass, geothermal, fuel cells.
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What's LD5O?
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The amount of chemical that kills 50% of the animals in a test population.
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What does Mutagen, Teatogen, Carcinogen Causes?
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Hereditary canges, Fetus deformites, & cancer.
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What's Mutiple use US public land?
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National Forest & National Resource lands.
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What's Moderately retricted use land?
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National Wildlife Refuges
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What's Restrcted Use Lands?
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National Parks, National Wilderness Preservation System.
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What's Volcanoes and Earthquakes?
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Occur at plate boundaries(divergent, spreading, mid-ocean ridges)(convergent, trenches)(transform, sliding, San Andreas)
