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AP Environmental Science
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1. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
poison
tertiary consumers
greenbelt
2. A fiscal policy that lowers taxes on income - including wages and profit - and raises taxes on consumption - particularly the unsustainable consumption of non-renewable resources.
composting
acid
green tax
volcanoes
3. The energy of motion.
risk management
kinetic energy
primary pollutants
capture fisheries
4. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms die from a toxin.
evolution
carnivore
dose-response analysis
LD50
5. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.
biological weathering
second growth forests
strip mining
by-catch
6. The liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.
industrial smog (gray smog)
disease
leachate
Infection
7. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.
agroforestry
rain shadow
La Nina
greenhouse effect
8. The process of burning.
combustion
composting
market permits
clear-cutting
9. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
composting
toxicity
Superfund Program
Infection
10. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.
invasive species
niche
extinction
nitrification
11. The process in which animals (and plants!) breathe and give off carbon dioxide from cellular metabolism.
physical (mechanical) weathering
bituminous
respiration
coral reef
12. The place where two plates abut each other.
agroforestry
carrying capacity
fault
noise pollution
13. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
physical treatmen
loamy
heterotrophy
food web
14. 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).
realized niche
old growth forest
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
jet stream
15. When grass is consumed by animals at a faster rate than it can regrow.
tree farms
vector
mutualism
overgrazed
16. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.
weather
by-catch
realized niche
emigration
17. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.
evaporation
gray smog (industrial smog)
chronic effect
tertiary consumers
18. The process of soil particles being carried away by wind or water. Erosion moves the smaller particles first and hence degrades the soil to a coarser - sandier - stonier texture.
autotroph
acute effect
age-structure pyramids
erosion
19. An underground layer of porous rock - sand - or other material that allows the movement of water between layers of nonporous rock or clay. Aquifers are frequently tapped for wells.
sludge processor
greenbelt
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
aquifer
20. The process by which - according to Darwin's theory of evolution - only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations - while those less adap
trophic level
no-till
inner core
natural selection
21. 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.
physical treatmen
sand
malnutrition
Superfund Program
22. The phenomenon whereby the Earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation - caused by the presence in the atmosphere of gases such as carbon dioxide - water vapor - and methane that allow incoming sunlight to pass through - but absorb heat radiated back fr
First Law of Thermodynamics
climax community
greenhouse effect
Aquaculture
23. A soil horizon; B receives the minerals and organic materials that are leached out of the A horizon.
second growth forests
B layer
old growth forest
salinization
24. An area in which a particular mineral is concentrated - mining -the excavation of the Earth for the purpose of extracting ore or minerals.
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
niche
mineral deposit
ecological footprint
25. The edges of tectonic plates.
watershed
plate boundaries
primary pollutants
indigenous species
26. 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.
building-related illness
dose-response analysis
consumer
Gross Primary Productivity
27. The value of natural resources.
ecosystem capital
mutualism
sludge
slash-and-burn
28. Radioactive wastes that produce low levels of ionizing radiation.
tropospheric ozone
renewable resources
loamy
low-level radioactive waste
29. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
driftnets
physical treatmen
industrial smog (gray smog)
clay
30. The least pure coal.
photosynthesis
alkaline
lignite
strip mining
31. 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.
food chain
lignite
risk management
k-selected
32. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.
Hadley cell
disease
weather
U.S. Noise Control Act
33. 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.
photosynthesis
strip mining
Infection
green tax
34. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.
law of conservation of matter
dose-response curve
energy pyramid
Superfund Program
35. The accumulation of a substance - such as a toxic chemical - in various tissues of a living organism.
bioaccumulation
biotic
evolution
aquifer
36. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
Horizon
reservoir
upwelling
37. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.
replacement birth rate
consumer
low-level radioactive waste
Immigration
38. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
genetic drift
plate boundaries
monoculture
replacement birth rate
39. Soil composed of a mixture of sand - clay - silt - and organic matter.
sick building syndrome
estuary
loamy
albedo
40. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
tailings
Uneven-aged management
Immigration
thermosphere
41. When the energy released from waste incineration is used to generate electricity.
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
biotic potential
population
petroleum
42. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.
ecosystem capital
crude oil
second growth forests
estuary
43. Calculating risk - or the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen.
risk assessment
agroforestry
toxicity
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
44. 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.
market permits
First Law of Thermodynamics
B layer
atmosphere
45. Any substance than is inhaled - ingested - or absorbed at dosages sufficient to damage a living organism.
atmosphere
biological weathering
long lining
toxin
46. 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.
upwelling
passive solar energy collection
active collection
biotic potential
47. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.
Horizon
sludge processor
convection
Second Law of Thermodynamics
48. 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.
El Nino
selective cutting
Second Law of Thermodynamics
alkaline
49. Species that originate and live - or occur naturally - in an area or environment.
prior appropriation
indigenous species
species
food chain
50. The finest soil - made up of particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter.
clay
erosion
fly ash
old growth forest