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AP Environmental Science

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1. A group of modern windmills.






2. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






3. The movement of individuals out of a population.






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.






5. The atmospheric pressure conditions corresponding to the periodic warming of El Nino and cooling of La Nina.






6. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.






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






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.






9. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.






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






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






12. Living or derived from living things.






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






14. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.






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






16. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels - especially coal.






17. A specific location from which pollution is released; an example of a point source location is a factory where wood is being burned.






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






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






20. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.






21. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.






22. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.






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






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.






25. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.






26. When the size of an organism's natural habitat is reduced - or when development occurs that isolates a habitat.






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






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






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






30. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






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.






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






33. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.






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. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.






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






37. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






38. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.






39. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.






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






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






42. The act or process of transpiring - or releasing water vapor - especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.






43. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.






44. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.






45. Organisms that consume primary consumers.






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.






47. The energy of motion.






48. The process in which animals (and plants!) breathe and give off carbon dioxide from cellular metabolism.






49. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






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







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