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AP Environmental Science

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1. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.






2. 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. ...






3. The part of the mantle that lies just below the lithosphere.






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






5. 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.






6. The process that occurs when two different species in a region compete and the better adapted species wins.






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






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






9. The second-purest form of coal.






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






11. Living or derived from living things.






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






13. The dark - crumbly - nutrient-rich material that results from the decomposition of organic material.






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






15. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.






16. Any weathering that's caused by the activities of living organisms.






17. The part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides.






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






19. Gave the EPA power to set emission standards for major sources of noise - including transportation - machinery - and construction.






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






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






22. A platinum - coated device that oxidizes most of the VOCs and some of the CO that would otherwise be emitted in exhaust - converting them to CO2.






23. The process of burning.






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






25. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.






26. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of about 1 -000 -2 -000 m3 per person.






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






28. 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).






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






30. Also known as transform faults - boundaries at which plates are moving past each other - sideways.






31. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






32. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.






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






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.






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






36. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.






37. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.






38. To convert or change into a vapor.






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






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






41. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






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






43. A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean - traveling north - northwest - or northeast from its point of origin - and usually involving heavy rains.






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






45. Refers to when farmers plant seeds without using a plow to turn the soil.






46. Sunlight.






47. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.






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






49. The movement of individuals out of a population.






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







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