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AP Environmental Science

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1. 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.






2. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.






3. The maintenance of a species or ecosystem in order to ensure their perpetuation - with no concern as to their potential monetary value






4. Using strategies to reduce the amount of risk (the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen).






5. Calculating risk - or the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen.






6. Pollutants that are formed by the combination of primary pollutants in the atmosphere.






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






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






9. Resources that are often formed by very slow geologic processes - so we consider them incapable of being regenerated within the realm of human existence.






10. In a sewage treatment plant - the initial filtration that is done to remove debris such as stones - sticks - rags - toys - and other objects that were flushed down the toilet.






11. The rocks and Earth that is removed when mining for a commercially valuable mineral resource.






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






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






14. 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.






15. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.






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






22. Any water that has been used by humans. This includes human sewage - water drained from showers - tubs - sinks - dishwashers - washing machines - water from industrial processes - and storm water runoff.






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






24. 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.






25. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






26. A climate variation that takes place in the tropical Pacific about every three to seven years - for a duration of about one year.






27. An area in which a particular mineral is concentrated - mining -the excavation of the Earth for the purpose of extracting ore or minerals.






28. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.






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






30. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.






31. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.






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






33. Organisms that consume primary consumers.






34. 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. ...






35. 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.






36. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.






37. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. Pollutants that are released directly into the lower atmosphere.






43. The low-rainfall region that exists on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range. This rain shadow is the result of the mountain range's causing precipitation on the windward side.






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






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






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






47. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.






48. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.






49. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.






50. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.