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AP Environmental Science

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1. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.






2. When populations are well below the size dictated by the carrying capacity of the region they live in - they will grow exponentially - but as they approach the carrying capacity - their growth rate will decrease and the size of the population will ev






3. 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.






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






5. The process of burning.






6. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






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






8. Organisms that derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter.






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






10. Is the practice of planting bands of different crops across a hillside.






11. The raising of fish and other aquatic species in captivity for harvest.






12. When grass is consumed by animals at a faster rate than it can regrow.






13. When materials - such as plastic or aluminum - are used to rebuild the same product. An example of this is the use of the aluminum from aluminum cans to produce more aluminum cans.






14. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.






15. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.






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






17. 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.






18. When each family in a community grows crops for themselves and rely on animal and human labor to plant and harvest crops.






19. The process in which plants absorb ammonium (NH3) - ammonia ions (NH4+) - and nitrate ions (NO3) through their roots.






20. A process in which an organism is exposed to a toxin at different concentrations - and the dosage that causes the death of the organism is recorded.






21. 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.






22. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.






23. The vertical movement of a mass of matter due to heating and cooling; this can happen in both the atmosphere and Earth's mantle.






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






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






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






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






28. A waste product produced by the burning of coal.






29. 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.






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






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






32. An intensification of the Greenhouse Effect due to the increased presence of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.






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






34. Any substance than is inhaled - ingested - or absorbed at dosages sufficient to damage a living organism.






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.






41. The place where two plates abut each other.






42. When physically treated sewage water is passed into a settling tank - where suspended solids settle out as sludge; chemically treated polymers may be added to help the suspended solids separate and settle out.






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






44. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






45. Land that's fit to be cultivated.






46. Fires that typically burn only the forest's underbrush and do little damage to mature trees. Surface fires actually serve to protect the forest from more harmful fires by removing underbrush and dead materials that would burn quickly and at high temp






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






48. Sunlight.






49. The outermost shell of the atmosphere - between the mesosphere and outer space - where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.






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