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AP Environmental Science

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






2. An animal that only consumes other animals.






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






4. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.






5. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






6. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.






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






8. The use of building materials - building placement - and design to passively collect solar energy that can be used to keep a building warm or cool.






9. An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten lava - ash - and gases are ejected.






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






11. The A layer of soil is often referred to as topsoil and is most important for plant growth.






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






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






14. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms die from a toxin.






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






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






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






18. The movement of individuals out of a population.






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






20. A group of modern windmills.






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






22. The finest soil - made up of particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter.






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






24. 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.






25. Any other species of fish - mammals - or birds that are caught that are not the target organism.






26. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back into space.






27. Also known as transform faults - boundaries at which plates are moving past each other - sideways.






28. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.






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






30. When photochemical smog - NOx compounds - VOCs - and ozone combine to form smog with a brownish hue.






31. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






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






33. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.






34. The accumulation of a substance - such as a toxic chemical - in various tissues of a living organism.






35. A soil horizon; B receives the minerals and organic materials that are leached out of the A horizon.






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






37. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.






38. 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.






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






40. When mature trees are cut over a period of time (usually10 -20 years); this leaves mature trees - which can reseed the forest - in place.






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






42. 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.






43. A process in which rows of crops are plowed across the hillside; this prevents the erosion that can occur when rows are cut up and down on a slope. ...






44. Each of the feeding levels in a food chain.






45. Sunlight.






46. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels - especially coal.






47. Species that originate and live - or occur naturally - in an area or environment.






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






49. The dosage level of a toxin at which a negative effect occurs.






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