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AP Environmental Science
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1. An organism that is capable of converting radiant energy or chemical energy into carbohydrates.
producer
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
tailings
primary pollutants
2. The part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides.
market permits
biotic
estuary
wind farm
3. The result of chemical interaction with the bedrock that is typical of the action of both water and atmospheric gases.
chemical weathering
energy
red tide
U.S. Noise Control Act
4. The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica (and to some extent - over the Arctic).
underground mining
ozone holes
LD50
logistic population growth
5. The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources in a region.
carrying capacity
preservation
red tide
Superfund Program
6. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.
point source pollution
habitat
weathering
toxicity
7. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.
realized niche
dose-response analysis
wetlands
chronic effect
8. 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.
abiotic
divergent boundary
evolution
scrubbers
9. Graphical representations of populations' ages.
greenhouse effect
asthenosphere
strip mining
age-structure pyramids
10. Resources that are often formed by very slow geologic processes - so we consider them incapable of being regenerated within the realm of human existence.
toxicity
population
potential energy
nonrenewable resources
11. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.
traditional subsistence agriculture
hazardous waste
biological weathering
pioneer species
12. A specific location from which pollution is released; an example of a point source location is a factory where wood is being burned.
point source pollution
erosion
dose-response curve
riparian right
13. The result of a pathogen invading a body.
primary treatment
primary succession
low-level radioactive waste
Infection
14. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.
edge effect
disease
primary succession
agroforestry
15. A soil horizon; B receives the minerals and organic materials that are leached out of the A horizon.
B layer
age-structure pyramids
clear-cutting
lignite
16. The third purest form of coal.
death rate (crude death rate)
petroleum
subbituminous
trade winds
17. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.
tropospheric ozone
scrubbers
natural resources
building-related illness
18. 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.
crude oil
La Nina
food web
sick building syndrome
19. Any compound that releases hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. Also - a water solution that contains a surplus of hydrogen ions.
parasitism
acid
arable
ED50
20. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
Superfund Program
climax community
inner core
21. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.
long lining
nitrification
anthracite
Aquaculture
22. Pertaining to factors or things that are separate and independent from living things; nonliving.
abiotic
physical treatmen
biomagnifications
B layer
23. When the signs and symptoms of an illness can be attributed to a specific infectious organism that resides in the building.
building-related illness
noise pollution
Second Law of Thermodynamics
acute effect
24. Living or derived from living things.
anthracite
ecosystem capital
biotic
aquifer
25. Can consist of hazardous waste - industrial solid waste - or municipal waste. Many types of solid waste provide a threat to human health and the environment.
demographic transition model
old growth forest
solid waste
kinetic energy
26. The movement of individuals out of a population.
emigration
lignite
barrier island
evolution
27. When photochemical smog - NOx compounds - VOCs - and ozone combine to form smog with a brownish hue.
long lining
photochemical smog
C layer
subduction zone
28. 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.
water-stressed
atmosphere
fault
lithosphere
29. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.
prior appropriation
k-selected
silviculture
petroleum
30. The process by which specialized bacteria (mostly anaerobic bacteria) convert ammonia to NOy NO2 - and N2 and release it back to the atmosphere.
nitrification
slash-and-burn
evaporation
denitrification
31. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.
threshold dose
LD50
closed-loop recycling
realized niche
32. A soil horizon; the layer below the O layer is called the A layer. The A layer is formed of weathered rock - with some organic material; often referred to as topsoil.
conservation
wetlands
vector
A layer
33. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.
El Nino
tertiary consumers
preservation
non-point source pollution
34. 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.
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
subduction zone
kinetic energy
Half-life
35. When the energy released from waste incineration is used to generate electricity.
fission
disease
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
heterotrophy
36. A process that allows the organic material in solid waste to be decomposed and reintroduced into the soil - often as fertilizer.
underground mining
composting
conservation
biotic
37. The coarsest soil - with particles 0.05 -2.0 mm in diameter.
sand
high-level radioactive waste
nonrenewable resources
vector
38. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.
overburden
consumer
Headwaters
water-stressed
39. The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to disappear.
acid
keystone species
Half-life
nitrogen fixation
40. The process of soil particles being carried away by wind or water. Erosion moves the smaller particles first and hence degrades the soil to a coarser - sandier - stonier texture.
erosion
Hadley cell
building-related illness
niche
41. Non-moving sources of pollution - such as factories.
keystone species
death rate (crude death rate)
stationary sources
slash-and-burn
42. A symbiotic relationship in which one member is helped by the association and the other is harmed.
parasitism
nitrification
U.S. Noise Control Act
estuary
43. 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).
sludge
symbiotic relationships
potential energy
riparian right
44. 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.
point source pollution
selective cutting
edge effect
energy pyramid
45. Devices containing alkaline substances that precipitate out much of the sulfur dioxide from industrial plants.
risk management
evaporation
acute effect
scrubbers
46. The atmospheric pressure conditions corresponding to the periodic warming of El Nino and cooling of La Nina.
invasive species
Southern Oscillation
primary treatment
wetlands
47. The industry or occupation devoted to the catching - processing - or selling of fish - shellfish - or other aquatic animals.
assimilation
wind farm
overburden
fishery
48. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.
crude oil
Immigration
selective cutting
Gross Primary Productivity
49. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.
R horizon
old growth forest
risk management
risk assessment
50. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.
acid precipitation
natural resources
habitat
First Law of Thermodynamics