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AP Environmental Science
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1. Also known as plantations - these are planted and managed tracts of trees of the same age that are harvested for commercial use.
genetic drift
tree farms
mantle
coral reef
2. When an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops.
chronic effect
red tide
slash-and-burn
food chain
3. 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.
jet stream
clay
shelter-wood cutting
atmosphere
4. Nets that are dragged through the water and indiscriminately catch everything in their path.
Southern Oscillation
green tax
prior appropriation
driftnets
5. 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.
Uneven-aged management
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
surface fires
sand
6. The capacity to do work.
energy
fault
consumption
bottom trawling
7. When ecological succession begins in a virtually lifeless area - such as the area behind a moving glacier.
assimilation
primary succession
wind farm
silt
8. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.
greenhouse effect
wind farm
symbiotic relationships
overgrazed
9. Devices containing alkaline substances that precipitate out much of the sulfur dioxide from industrial plants.
photochemical smog
scrubbers
sick building syndrome
Gross Primary Productivity
10. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.
Horizon
population density
nonrenewable resources
consumer
11. An animal that only consumes other animals.
evolution
vector
carnivore
ozone holes
12. A soil horizon; B receives the minerals and organic materials that are leached out of the A horizon.
physical treatmen
toxicity
Superfund Program
B layer
13. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.
potential energy
habitat
realized niche
subduction zone
14. 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.
transform boundary
solid waste
symbiotic relationships
transpiration
15. The liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.
proven reserve
arable
leachate
age-structure pyramids
16. The movement of individuals into a population.
Immigration
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
Coriolis effect
albedo
17. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.
deforestation
edge effect
scrubbers
acid precipitation
18. Energy at rest - or stored energy.
nitrogen fixation
potential energy
First Law of Thermodynamics
bioaccumulation
19. Organisms that are capable of interbreeding with one another and incapable of breeding with other species.
death rate (crude death rate)
species
population density
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
20. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.
replacement birth rate
biotic potential
disease
La Nina
21. The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to disappear.
genetic drift
abiotic
malnutrition
Half-life
22. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
logistic population growth
high-level radioactive waste
subduction zone
land degradation
23. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.
wastewater
Immigration
coral reef
surface fires
24. The management or regulation of a resource so that its use does not exceed the capacity of the resource to regenerate itself.
asthenosphere
conservation
slash-and-burn
by-catch
25. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.
natural selection
hazardous waste
trade winds
agroforestry
26. Says that the entropy (disorder) of the universe is increasing. One corollary of the Second Law of thermodynamics is the concept that - in most energy transformations - a significant fraction of energy is lost to the universe as heat.
food web
evaporation
Second Law of Thermodynamics
barrels
27. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.
First Law of Thermodynamics
consumption
population
food web
28. 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.
nitrogen fixation
selective cutting
fission
consumer
29. When soil becomes water-logged and then dries out - and salt forms a layer on its surface.
global warming
replacement birth rate
Superfund Program
land degradation
30. The practice of alternating the crops grown on a piece of land - for example - corn one year - legumes for two years - and then back to corn.
detritivore
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
chronic effect
crop rotation
31. Drilling a hole in the ground that's below the water table to hold waste.
deep well injection
barrier island
toxicity
by-catch
32. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.
petroleum
water-scarce
species
autotroph
33. The raising of fish and other aquatic species in captivity for harvest.
Gross Primary Productivity
reservoir
Aquaculture
sand
34. The part of the mantle that lies just below the lithosphere.
point source pollution
fission
monoculture
asthenosphere
35. When photochemical smog - NOx compounds - VOCs - and ozone combine to form smog with a brownish hue.
photochemical smog
water-stressed
inner core
scrubbers
36. The removal of trees for agricultural purposes or purposes of exportation.
k-selected
deep well injection
deforestation
biotic potential
37. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.
barrier island
weather
species
emigration
38. When the majority of a building's occupants experience certain symptoms that vary with the amount of time spent in the building.
food chain
wetlands
sick building syndrome
bottom trawling
39. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms show a negative effect from a toxin.
fission
ED50
clay
malnutrition
40. Any other species of fish - mammals - or birds that are caught that are not the target organism.
humus
by-catch
overgrazed
selective cutting
41. The solids that remain after the secondary treatment of sewage.
sludge
vector
B layer
ecological succession
42. To convert or change into a vapor.
evaporation
natural selection
pathogens
catalytic converter
43. Graphical representations of populations' ages.
shelter-wood cutting
hazardous waste
age-structure pyramids
realized niche
44. Also known as transform faults - boundaries at which plates are moving past each other - sideways.
emigration
transform boundary
capture fisheries
fly ash
45. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.
nitrification
replacement birth rate
albedo
community
46. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.
Infection
demographic transition model
habitat
acid precipitation
47. This category includes organisms that consume producers (plants and algae).
capture fisheries
bottom trawling
primary consumers
ecological succession
48. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.
dose-response curve
terracing
physical treatmen
land degradation
49. A layer in a large body of water - such as a lake - that sharply separates regions differing in temperature - so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt.
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
lignite
proven reserve
thermocline
50. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.
poison
combustion
passive solar energy collection
sludge