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AP Environmental Science
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1. In a sewage treatment plant - the initial filtration that is done to remove debris such as stones - sticks - rags - toys - and other objects that were flushed down the toilet.
vector
bottom trawling
physical treatmen
habitat
2. A climate variation that takes place in the tropical Pacific about every three to seven years - for a duration of about one year.
El Nino
Horizon
habitat fragmentation
selective cutting
3. Non-moving sources of pollution - such as factories.
respiration
greenhouse effect
divergent boundary
stationary sources
4. The effect caused by a short exposure to a high level of toxin.
symbiotic relationships
passive solar energy collection
genetic drift
acute effect
5. When one species feeds on another.
non-point source pollution
predation
extinction
scrubbers
6. The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to disappear.
renewable resources
topsoil
producer
Half-life
7. Any water that has been used by humans. This includes human sewage - water drained from showers - tubs - sinks - dishwashers - washing machines - water from industrial processes - and storm water runoff.
building-related illness
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
leachate
wastewater
8. 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.
La Nina
combustion
petroleum
noise pollution
9. Bacteria or fungi that absorb nutrients from nonliving organic matter like plant material - the wastes of living organisms - and corpses. They convert these materials into inorganic forms.
crude oil
Immigration
decomposer
secondary consumers
10. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.
crude oil
pioneer species
radiant energy
coral reef
11. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back into space.
albedo
autotroph
habitat fragmentation
old growth forest
12. Any other species of fish - mammals - or birds that are caught that are not the target organism.
shelter-wood cutting
primary pollutants
by-catch
green tax
13. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.
tropospheric ozone
fault
sludge processor
tailings
14. The condition in which - at ecosystem boundaries - there is greater species diversity and biological density than there is in the heart of ecological communities.
edge effect
anthracite
Green Revolution
wetlands
15. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.
disease
transform boundary
primary pollutants
Hadley cell
16. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
decomposer
poison
toxicity
proven reserve
17. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.
coral reef
terracing
pathogens
wastewater
18. A bloom of dinoflagellates that causes reddish discoloration of coastal ocean waters. Certain dinoflagellates of the genus Gonyamfox produce toxins that kill fish and contaminate shellfish.
emigration
secondary pollutants
red tide
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
19. The total sum of a species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment.
niche
bioaccumulation
estuary
rain shadow
20. The second-purest form of coal.
fishery
jet stream
humus
bituminous
21. Involves the sinking of shafts to reach underground deposits. In this type of mining - networks of tunnels are dug or blasted and humans enter these tunnels in order to manually retrieve the coal.
red tide
underground mining
biotic
overgrazed
22. When the energy released from waste incineration is used to generate electricity.
biomagnifications
law of conservation of matter
vector
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
23. Urban areas that heat up more quickly and retain heat more than do nonurban areas.
greenbelt
risk assessment
inner core
heat islands
24. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.
lignite
underground mining
plate boundaries
habitat
25. When the signs and symptoms of an illness can be attributed to a specific infectious organism that resides in the building.
carnivore
greenbelt
tertiary consumers
building-related illness
26. A place where a large quantity of a resource sits for a long period of time.
law of conservation of matter
volcanoes
reservoir
consumption
27. A layer in a large body of water - such as a lake - that sharply separates regions differing in temperature - so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt.
r-selected
thermocline
slash-and-burn
greenhouse effect
28. The energy of motion.
R horizon
kinetic energy
catalytic converter
coral reef
29. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.
primary pollutants
secondary treatment
lithosphere
closed-loop recycling
30. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.
monoculture
agroforestry
Uneven-aged management
niche
31. Using strategies to reduce the amount of risk (the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen).
poison
convection currents
risk management
loamy
32. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.
composting
Southern Oscillation
prior appropriation
non-point source pollution
33. A plate boundary at which plates are moving away from each other. This causes an upwelling of magma from the mantle to cool and form new crust.
inner core
wind farm
divergent boundary
indigenous species
34. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.
weather
ecological footprint
omnivores
Immigration
35. An intensification of the Greenhouse Effect due to the increased presence of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
natural resources
global warming
denitrification
pioneer species
36. An organism such as a bacterium or protozoan - that obtains its nourishment through the oxidation of inorganic chemical compounds - as opposed to photosynthesis.
hazardous waste
secondary treatment
convection
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
37. The capacity to do work.
C layer
deforestation
energy
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
38. Organisms that derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter.
albedo
detritivore
edge effect
renewable resources
39. Graphical representations of populations' ages.
age-structure pyramids
overburden
shelter-wood cutting
arable
40. A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
food web
driftnets
invasive species
delta
41. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.
crop rotation
petroleum
catalytic converter
divergent boundary
42. The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica (and to some extent - over the Arctic).
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
ozone holes
crude oil
niche
43. The third purest form of coal.
fission
nitrification
subbituminous
shelter-wood cutting
44. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
watershed
strip mining
autotroph
riparian right
45. When ecological succession begins in a virtually lifeless area - such as the area behind a moving glacier.
high-level radioactive waste
primary succession
long lining
assimilation
46. Nets that are dragged through the water and indiscriminately catch everything in their path.
carnivore
volcanoes
driftnets
wind farm
47. Power generated using water.
Headwaters
hydroelectric power
O layer
natural selection
48. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
fishery
heterotrophy
overgrazed
secondary treatment
49. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
toxin
thermocline
Uneven-aged management
Immigration
50. Fish farming in which fish are caught in the wild and not raised in captivity for consumption.
photosynthesis
toxin
building-related illness
capture fisheries