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Biological and physical processes (727 items)
Culture and demographics (27 items)
Earth characteristics (410 items)
Effects of climate change (31 items)
Hazards (160 items)
Health and disease (78 items)
Human impacts (103 items)
Information system design and development (42 items)
Instrument design and development (31 items)
Land use and land cover (55 items)
Map coordinate systems (3 items)
Contamination and pollution (172 items)
Natural resource exploration (11 items)
Natural resource extraction (31 items)
Natural resources (603 items)
Organism groupings (non-taxonomic) (200 items)
Organisms (301 items)
Planetary bodies (10 items)
Population and community ecology (376 items)
Scientific careers (8 items)
Water properties (74 items)
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Water supply and demand (83 items)
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