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AP Environmental Science

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Species that originate and live - or occur naturally - in an area or environment.






2. Refers to when farmers plant seeds without using a plow to turn the soil.






3. The energy of motion.






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






5. Poor nutrition that results from an insufficient or poorly balanced diet.






6. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.






7. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.






8. A fiscal policy that lowers taxes on income - including wages and profit - and raises taxes on consumption - particularly the unsustainable consumption of non-renewable resources.






9. A fishing technique in which the ocean floor is literally scraped by heavy nets that smash everything in their path.






10. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.






11. A hydrocarbon deposit - such as petroleum - coal - or natural gas - derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel.






12. This category includes organisms that consume producers (plants and algae).






13. A waste product produced by the burning of coal.






14. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.






15. A program funded by the federal government and a trust that's funded by taxes on chemicals; identifies pollutants and cleans up hazardous waste sites.






16. 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.






17. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.






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






19. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.






20. The random fluctuations in the frequency of the appearance of a gene in a small isolated population - presumably owing to chance - rather than natural selection.






21. The capacity to do work.






22. When the signs and symptoms of an illness can be attributed to a specific infectious organism that resides in the building.






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






24. The part of the mantle that lies just below the lithosphere.






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






26. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.






27. 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.






28. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.






29. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.






30. The process of burning.






31. Is the practice of planting bands of different crops across a hillside.






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






33. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.






34. Power generated using water.






35. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






36. Soil composed of a mixture of sand - clay - silt - and organic matter.






37. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.






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






39. 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.






40. The value of natural resources.






41. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.






42. 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.






43. Air currents caused by the vertical movement of air due to atmospheric heating and cooling.






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






45. A region of the ocean near the equator - characterized by calms - light winds - or squalls.






46. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.






47. A group of modern windmills.






48. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






49. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.






50. A stable - mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.