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AP Environmental Science

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.






2. When the energy released from waste incineration is used to generate electricity.






3. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.






4. The value of natural resources.






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






6. The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body - especially the one surrounding the Earth - which is retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.






7. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.






8. A place where a large quantity of a resource sits for a long period of time.






9. When one species feeds on another.






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






11. The place where two plates abut each other.






12. The management or regulation of a resource so that its use does not exceed the capacity of the resource to regenerate itself.






13. The least pure coal.






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






15. The movement of individuals out of a population.






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






17. When water rights are given to those who have historically used the water in a certain area.






18. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






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






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






26. The use of devices - such as solar panels - to collect - focus - transport - or store solar energy.






27. The unit used to describe the volume of fossil fuels.






28. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.






29. Radioactive wastes that produce high levels of ionizing radiation.






30. The region draining into river system or other body of water.






31. A lowland area - such as a marsh or swamp - that is saturated with moisture - especially when regarded as the natural habitat of wildlife.






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






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






34. Living or derived from living things.






35. The act or process of transpiring - or releasing water vapor - especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.






36. The number of children an average woman will bear during her lifetime; this information is based on an analysis of data from preceding years in the population in question.






37. Organisms in the first stages of succession.






38. When an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops.






39. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.






40. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.






41. 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.






42. When the size of an organism's natural habitat is reduced - or when development occurs that isolates a habitat.






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






44. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.






45. The development and introduction of new varieties of (mainly) wheat and rice that has increased yields per acre dramatically in countries since the 1960s.






46. Organisms that are capable of interbreeding with one another and incapable of breeding with other species.






47. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






48. The observed effect of the Coriolis force - especially the deflection of an object moving above the Earth - rightward in the Northern Hemisphere - and leftward in the Southern Hemisphere.






49. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of about 1 -000 -2 -000 m3 per person.






50. The process by which - according to Darwin's theory of evolution - only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations - while those less adap