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AP Environmental Science
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1. 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
logistic population growth
risk management
extinction
Southern Oscillation
2. The movement of individuals into a population.
Immigration
k-selected
carnivore
proven reserve
3. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
weather
strip mining
food chain
4. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
Uneven-aged management
dose-response analysis
radiant energy
weather
5. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
toxicity
closed-loop recycling
divergent boundary
ED50
6. The least pure coal.
transform boundary
lignite
lithosphere
rain shadow
7. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms show a negative effect from a toxin.
O layer
ED50
petroleum
demographic transition model
8. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 km (30 to 75 miles) per hour.
tropical storm
shelter-wood cutting
O layer
assimilation
9. Any weathering that's caused by the activities of living organisms.
age-structure pyramids
biological weathering
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
sick building syndrome
10. 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.
weather
wind farm
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
hazardous waste
11. The edges of tectonic plates.
agroforestry
plate boundaries
respiration
heat islands
12. States that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
chronic effect
sand
low-level radioactive waste
law of conservation of matter
13. When the energy released from waste incineration is used to generate electricity.
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
strip mining
alkaline
wastewater
14. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.
R horizon
driftnets
primary consumers
petroleum
15. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.
Infection
primary consumers
lithosphere
deep well injection
16. When materials - such as plastic or aluminum - are used to rebuild the same product. An example of this is the use of the aluminum from aluminum cans to produce more aluminum cans.
ecological succession
clear-cutting
closed-loop recycling
alkaline
17. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
conservation
subduction zone
chronic effect
malnutrition
18. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.
natural resources
consumer
secondary pollutants
sludge processor
19. The effect caused by a short exposure to a high level of toxin.
mutualism
acute effect
ecosystem capital
petroleum
20. A process in which an organism is exposed to a toxin at different concentrations - and the dosage that causes the death of the organism is recorded.
population density
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
dose-response analysis
earthquake
21. 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
capture fisheries
greenhouse effect
denitrification
22. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.
driftnets
vector
B layer
primary pollutants
23. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.
albedo
wastewater
Green Revolution
replacement birth rate
24. Soil composed of a mixture of sand - clay - silt - and organic matter.
loamy
habitat
building-related illness
omnivores
25. The process in which plants absorb ammonium (NH3) - ammonia ions (NH4+) - and nitrate ions (NO3) through their roots.
competitive exclusion
clay
assimilation
chemical weathering
26. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.
no-till
habitat
edge effect
weather
27. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of about 1 -000 -2 -000 m3 per person.
water-stressed
gray smog (industrial smog)
weather
humus
28. A region of the ocean near the equator - characterized by calms - light winds - or squalls.
rain shadow
doldrums
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
population density
29. Involves the removal of the Earth's surface all the way down to the level of the mineral seam.
risk management
parasitism
strip mining
deep well injection
30. When soil becomes water-logged and then dries out - and salt forms a layer on its surface.
fishery
total fertility rate
composting
land degradation
31. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.
transform boundary
predation
upwelling
nitrogen fixation
32. Pollutants that are released directly into the lower atmosphere.
primary pollutants
Headwaters
convection
fishery
33. A layer of soil.
Horizon
underground mining
topsoil
ozone holes
34. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.
omnivores
Second Law of Thermodynamics
trade winds
aquifer
35. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.
secondary consumers
coral reef
sick building syndrome
second growth forests
36. Air currents caused by the vertical movement of air due to atmospheric heating and cooling.
scrubbers
solid waste
realized niche
convection currents
37. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.
Uneven-aged management
primary pollutants
bioaccumulation
First Law of Thermodynamics
38. A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean - traveling north - northwest - or northeast from its point of origin - and usually involving heavy rains.
heterotrophy
surface fires
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
birth rate (crude birth rate)
39. The more or less constant winds blowing in horizontal directions over the Earth's surface - as part of Hadley cells.
point source pollution
acid precipitation
chemical weathering
trade winds
40. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.
barrels
silt
disease
secondary treatment
41. The amount of the Earth's surface that's necessary to supply the needs of - and dispose of the waste from a particular population.
ecological footprint
estuary
convection
primary consumers
42. The process by which specialized bacteria (mostly anaerobic bacteria) convert ammonia to NOy NO2 - and N2 and release it back to the atmosphere.
evolution
overgrazed
coral reef
denitrification
43. The process that occurs when two different species in a region compete and the better adapted species wins.
fly ash
anthracite
no-till
competitive exclusion
44. A method of supplying irrigation water through tubes that literally drip water onto the soil at the base of each plant.
Aquaculture
age-structure pyramids
drip irrigation
fly ash
45. Species that originate and live - or occur naturally - in an area or environment.
extinction
indigenous species
heterotrophy
parasitism
46. Organisms that are capable of interbreeding with one another and incapable of breeding with other species.
realized niche
Headwaters
riparian right
species
47. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.
evolution
disease
non-point source pollution
greenbelt
48. A species whose very presence contributes to an ecosystem's diversity and whose extinction would consequently lead to the extinction of other forms of life.
keystone species
demographic transition model
divergent boundary
wind farm
49. Is the practice of planting bands of different crops across a hillside.
mutualism
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
B layer
disease
50. The uppermost horizon of soil. It is primarily made up of organic material - including waste from organisms - the bodies of decomposing organisms - and live organisms.
physical (mechanical) weathering
lignite
O layer
secondary treatment