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ENVIORMENTAL SCIENCE REVIEW SHEET1)     Mutation- a ergodic change in one or more genes of organisms. Mutations may lapse spontaneously in nature, but exposure radiation and/or opposite chemicals vastly increase their number and degree. 2)     Natural selection- the treat whereby the natural factors of environmental resistance tend to eliminate those members of the population that are least headspring fit to cope and thus, in effect select those best adapted for survival and reproduction.3)     Speciation-the evolutionary process whereby populations of a single species separate and, though being exposed to different forces of natural selection, gradually develop into limpid species. 4)     Selective pressure-An environmental factor that causes individuals with certain traits, which are not the norm for the population, to survive and reproduce more then rest of the population. The result is a shif t in the genetic makeup of the population5)     Selective manners- breeding of certain individuals because they bear certain traits and the exclusion from breeding of others. 6)     Tectonic plates- bulky slabs of pits which make up the earths crust. 7)     Igneous rock- produced under conditions involving intense heat " torrid rock is rock formed by solidification from a dissolve state especially from molten magma" "igneous fusion is fusion by heat alone.8)     Metamorphic rock- Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may consume undergone since their original deposition -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.9)     Sedimentary rock- rock formed from consolidated clay sediments10) &nbs p   Aquifer- An underground bed or mould of earth, gravel, or porous stone that yields piddle.11)     Capillary water- water that clings in undersize pores, cracks, and spaces against the pull of gravity, like water held in a sponge. 12)     Aquitard- 13)     Condensation- collecting of molecules from the vaporization state to form the liquid state, as for example, water vapor condenses on a cold surface to from water droplets. 14)     Desalinization- process that purify brine into high quality drinking water via distillation or micro-filtration.15)     Infiltration- the process that water soaks into the solid as oppose to running off the surface. 16)      Groundwater- water that has accumulated in the ground completely filling and saturating all pores and spaces in rock and/or soil. Groundwater is free to move more of less readily. It is the man-m ade lake for springs and wells and is replenished by infiltration of surface water. 17)      Percolation- the process of water oozy through cracks and pores in the sold or rock.