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AP Environmental Science

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1. The energy of motion.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. Organisms that consume primary consumers.






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. The condition in which - at ecosystem boundaries - there is greater species diversity and biological density than there is in the heart of ecological communities.






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






13. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.






14. Non-moving sources of pollution - such as factories.






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






16. The edges of tectonic plates.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of less than 1 -000 m3 per person.






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






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






22. 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).






23. When the majority of a building's occupants experience certain symptoms that vary with the amount of time spent in the building.






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






25. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.






26. The third purest form of coal.






27. Transition in species composition of a biological community - often following ecological disturbance of the community; the establishment of a biological community in any area virtually barren of life.






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






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






30. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.






31. Any process that breaks rock down into smaller pieces without changing the chemistry of the rock; typically wind and water.






32. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.






33. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.






34. The movement of individuals out of a population.






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






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






37. Sunlight.






38. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.






39. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






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






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






42. The unit used to describe the volume of fossil fuels.






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






44. The place where two plates abut each other.






45. 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






46. The amount of the Earth's surface that's necessary to supply the needs of - and dispose of the waste from a particular population.






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






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






49. The liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.






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