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AP Environmental Science

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.






6. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






7. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms die from a toxin.






8. The number of live births per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.






9. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.






10. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.






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






12. The raising of fish and other aquatic species in captivity for harvest.






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






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






15. 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.






16. The uppermost horizon of soil. It is primarily made up of organic material - including waste from organisms - the bodies of decomposing organisms - and live organisms.






17. The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica (and to some extent - over the Arctic).






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






19. Refers to resources - such as plants and animals - which can be regenerated if harvested at sustainable yields.






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






21. The molten core of the Earth.






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






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






24. The least pure coal.






25. The management or regulation of a resource so that its use does not exceed the capacity of the resource to regenerate itself.






26. 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.






27. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.






28. The low-rainfall region that exists on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range. This rain shadow is the result of the mountain range's causing precipitation on the windward side.






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






30. A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.






31. The place where two plates abut each other.






32. 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






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






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






35. A bloom of dinoflagellates that causes reddish discoloration of coastal ocean waters. Certain dinoflagellates of the genus Gonyamfox produce toxins that kill fish and contaminate shellfish.






36. The structure obtained if we organize the amount of energy contained in producers and consumers in an ecosystem by kilocalories per square meter - from largest to smallest.






37. Living or derived from living things.






38. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.






39. This category includes organisms that consume producers (plants and algae).






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






41. 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.






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






43. The total sum of a species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment.






44. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.






45. The process by which specialized bacteria (mostly anaerobic bacteria) convert ammonia to NOy NO2 - and N2 and release it back to the atmosphere.






46. The cleanest-burning coal; almost pure carbon.






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






48. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.






49. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






50. The use of devices - such as solar panels - to collect - focus - transport - or store solar energy.