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AP Environmental Science
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1. A group of modern windmills.
nitrogen fixation
malnutrition
water-stressed
wind farm
2. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.
estuary
natural resources
biotic potential
contour farming
3. The movement of individuals out of a population.
pathogens
physical (mechanical) weathering
acute effect
emigration
4. The vertical movement of a mass of matter due to heating and cooling; this can happen in both the atmosphere and Earth's mantle.
nitrification
green tax
greenbelt
convection
5. The atmospheric pressure conditions corresponding to the periodic warming of El Nino and cooling of La Nina.
age-structure pyramids
proven reserve
food chain
Southern Oscillation
6. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.
Superfund Program
First Law of Thermodynamics
secondary treatment
extinction
7. Any process that breaks rock down into smaller pieces without changing the chemistry of the rock; typically wind and water.
ecological footprint
physical (mechanical) weathering
clay
tertiary consumers
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.
silt
mutualism
fly ash
passive solar energy collection
9. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.
dose-response analysis
terracing
wind farm
k-selected
10. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.
Superfund Program
habitat fragmentation
First Law of Thermodynamics
dose-response curve
11. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
pioneer species
species
fly ash
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
12. Living or derived from living things.
symbiotic relationships
biotic
radiant energy
sludge processor
13. Air currents caused by the vertical movement of air due to atmospheric heating and cooling.
inner core
doldrums
convection currents
food chain
14. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.
coral reef
weathering
competitive exclusion
wastewater
15. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.
delta
trade winds
chronic effect
bituminous
16. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels - especially coal.
evaporation
population density
La Nina
gray smog (industrial smog)
17. A specific location from which pollution is released; an example of a point source location is a factory where wood is being burned.
point source pollution
chronic effect
A layer
jet stream
18. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
monoculture
kinetic energy
assimilation
C layer
19. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
biotic potential
heterotrophy
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
topsoil
20. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.
traditional subsistence agriculture
energy pyramid
respiration
weather
21. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.
anthracite
birth rate (crude birth rate)
lithosphere
building-related illness
22. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.
preservation
second growth forests
silviculture
crude oil
23. When the signs and symptoms of an illness can be attributed to a specific infectious organism that resides in the building.
habitat fragmentation
vector
building-related illness
upwelling
24. 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.
silviculture
assimilation
dose-response analysis
aquifer
25. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.
replacement birth rate
inner core
trade winds
watershed
26. When the size of an organism's natural habitat is reduced - or when development occurs that isolates a habitat.
nitrification
fossil fuel
dose-response curve
habitat fragmentation
27. The use of devices - such as solar panels - to collect - focus - transport - or store solar energy.
acid precipitation
active collection
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
silt
28. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
green tax
slash-and-burn
watershed
photochemical smog
29. The removal of all of the trees in an area.
R horizon
clear-cutting
deep well injection
closed-loop recycling
30. The result of a pathogen invading a body.
energy
alkaline
natural selection
Infection
31. A program funded by the federal government and a trust that's funded by taxes on chemicals; identifies pollutants and cleans up hazardous waste sites.
Superfund Program
slash-and-burn
low-level radioactive waste
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
32. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
renewable resources
population
convection
B layer
33. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.
petroleum
renewable resources
loamy
niche
34. The amount of sugar that the plants produce in photosynthesis and subtracting from it the amount of energy the plants need for growth maintenance - repair - and reproduction.
Gross Primary Productivity
Uneven-aged management
biotic potential
prior appropriation
35. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
energy
market permits
erosion
subduction zone
36. Any weathering that's caused by the activities of living organisms.
sludge
closed-loop recycling
extinction
biological weathering
37. Graphical representations of populations' ages.
B layer
age-structure pyramids
sand
predation
38. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.
ecosystem capital
leachate
pathogens
toxin
39. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.
secondary treatment
decomposer
inner core
First Law of Thermodynamics
40. The solids that remain after the secondary treatment of sewage.
sludge
red tide
sand
acute effect
41. Non-moving sources of pollution - such as factories.
food web
stationary sources
fault
plate boundaries
42. The act or process of transpiring - or releasing water vapor - especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.
denitrification
transpiration
greenhouse effect
non-point source pollution
43. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.
primary treatment
toxicity
old growth forest
subduction zone
44. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.
fault
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
tertiary consumers
toxicity
45. Organisms that consume primary consumers.
secondary consumers
fission
primary treatment
overburden
46. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.
community
parasitism
bioaccumulation
demographic transition model
47. The energy of motion.
autotroph
kinetic energy
convection currents
natural resources
48. The process in which animals (and plants!) breathe and give off carbon dioxide from cellular metabolism.
natural selection
conservation
respiration
biomagnifications
49. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.
tropospheric ozone
food chain
secondary pollutants
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
50. The cleanest-burning coal; almost pure carbon.
leachate
selective cutting
anthracite
tailings
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