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AP Environmental Science

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1. States that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.






2. The right - as to fishing or to the use of a riverbed - of one who owns riparian land (the land adjacent to a river or stream).






3. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.






4. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.






5. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.






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






7. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.






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






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






10. The structure obtained if we organize the amount of energy contained in producers and consumers in an ecosystem by kilocalories per square meter - from largest to smallest.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. The process by which specialized bacteria (mostly anaerobic bacteria) convert ammonia to NOy NO2 - and N2 and release it back to the atmosphere.






15. Power generated using water.






16. The cleanest-burning coal; almost pure carbon.






17. A basic substance; chemically - a substance that absorbs hydrogen ions or releases hydroxyl ions; in reference to natural water - a measure of the base content of the water.






18. The process in which animals (and plants!) breathe and give off carbon dioxide from cellular metabolism.






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






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






21. The result of chemical interaction with the bedrock that is typical of the action of both water and atmospheric gases.






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






23. The removal of select trees in an area; this leaves the majority of the habitat in place and has less of an impact on the ecosystem.






24. Living or derived from living things.






25. The process of fusing two nuclei.






26. A succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and - in turn - is preyed upon by a higher member.






27. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






28. The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into compounds - such as ammonia - by natural agencies or various industrial processes.






29. An animal that only consumes other animals.






30. The number of individuals of a population that inhabit a certain unit of land or water area.






31. Radioactive wastes that produce low levels of ionizing radiation.






32. 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.






33. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.






34. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






42. The number of live births per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.






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






44. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






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






46. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.






47. The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica (and to some extent - over the Arctic).






48. Organisms that reproduce early in life and often and have a high capacity for reproductive growth.






49. A long - relatively narrow island running parallel to the mainland-built up by the action of waves and currents and serving to protect the coast from erosion by surf and tidal surges.






50. An organism that is capable of converting radiant energy or chemical energy into carbohydrates.