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AP Environmental Science

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The amount of the Earth's surface that's necessary to supply the needs of - and dispose of the waste from a particular population.






2. The effect caused by a short exposure to a high level of toxin.






3. When grass is consumed by animals at a faster rate than it can regrow.






4. The A layer of soil is often referred to as topsoil and is most important for plant growth.






5. The process of burning.






6. Organisms that consume primary consumers.






7. The result of vibrations (often due to plate movements) deep in the Earth that release energy. They often occur as two plates slide past one another at a transform boundary.






8. An intensification of the Greenhouse Effect due to the increased presence of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.






9. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.






10. Urban areas that heat up more quickly and retain heat more than do nonurban areas.






11. Drilling a hole in the ground that's below the water table to hold waste.






12. The more or less constant winds blowing in horizontal directions over the Earth's surface - as part of Hadley cells.






13. The removal of all of the trees in an area.






14. The rocks and Earth that is removed when mining for a commercially valuable mineral resource.






15. When populations are well below the size dictated by the carrying capacity of the region they live in - they will grow exponentially - but as they approach the carrying capacity - their growth rate will decrease and the size of the population will ev






16. A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America - occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns.






17. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






18. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.






19. A high-speed - meandering wind current - generally moving from a westerly direction at speeds often exceeding 400 km (250 miles) per hour at altitudes of 15 to 25 km (10 to 15 miles).






20. The place where two plates abut each other.






21. A process that allows the organic material in solid waste to be decomposed and reintroduced into the soil - often as fertilizer.






22. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.






23. The process in which plants absorb ammonium (NH3) - ammonia ions (NH4+) - and nitrate ions (NO3) through their roots.






24. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.






25. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.






26. The capacity to do work.






27. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.






28. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.






29. The solids that remain after the secondary treatment of sewage.






30. The third purest form of coal.






31. Organisms in the first stages of succession.






32. The movement of individuals into a population.






33. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.






34. The water from which a river rises; a source.






35. An influential theory that concerns the long-term rate of conventional oil (and other fossil fuel) extraction and depletion. It predicts that future world oil production will soon reach a peak and then rapidly decline.






36. When each family in a community grows crops for themselves and rely on animal and human labor to plant and harvest crops.






37. A specific location from which pollution is released; an example of a point source location is a factory where wood is being burned.






38. A soil horizon - horizon C is made up of larger pieces of rock that have not undergone much weathering.






39. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms show a negative effect from a toxin.






40. Pertaining to factors or things that are separate and independent from living things; nonliving.






41. Pollutants that are released directly into the lower atmosphere.






42. Refers to resources - such as plants and animals - which can be regenerated if harvested at sustainable yields.






43. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.






44. The part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides.






45. A group of modern windmills.






46. The raising of fish and other aquatic species in captivity for harvest.






47. Piles of gangue - which is the waste material that results from mining.






48. A method of supplying irrigation water through tubes that literally drip water onto the soil at the base of each plant.






49. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.






50. Any process that breaks rock down into smaller pieces without changing the chemistry of the rock; typically wind and water.