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AP Environmental Science

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






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






3. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






4. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 km (30 to 75 miles) per hour.






5. Piles of gangue - which is the waste material that results from mining.






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






7. When photochemical smog - NOx compounds - VOCs - and ozone combine to form smog with a brownish hue.






8. The number of individuals of a population that inhabit a certain unit of land or water area.






9. A plate boundary at which plates are moving away from each other. This causes an upwelling of magma from the mantle to cool and form new crust.






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






11. To convert or change into a vapor.






12. 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. ...






13. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.






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






15. Each of the feeding levels in a food chain.






16. When an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops.






17. A high-speed - meandering wind current - generally moving from a westerly direction at speeds often exceeding 400 km (250 miles) per hour at altitudes of 15 to 25 km (10 to 15 miles).






18. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






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






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






21. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.






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






24. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.






25. When mature trees are cut over a period of time (usually10 -20 years); this leaves mature trees - which can reseed the forest - in place.






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






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






28. The least pure coal.






29. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.






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






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






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






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






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






35. A succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and - in turn - is preyed upon by a higher member.






36. Nets that are dragged through the water and indiscriminately catch everything in their path.






37. The result of chemical interaction with the bedrock that is typical of the action of both water and atmospheric gases.






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






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






40. 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.






41. The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources in a region.






42. When one species feeds on another.






43. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals and resulting in the development of new species.






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






45. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.






46. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.






47. The energy of motion.






48. The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.






49. Bacteria or fungi that absorb nutrients from nonliving organic matter like plant material - the wastes of living organisms - and corpses. They convert these materials into inorganic forms.






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







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