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AP Environmental Science
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1. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms show a negative effect from a toxin.
detritivore
omnivores
non-point source pollution
ED50
2. When companies are allowed to buy permits that allow them a certain amount of discharge of substances into certain environmental outlets. If they can reduce their amount of discharge - they are allowed to sell the remaining portion of their permit to
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
primary pollutants
market permits
overgrazed
3. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.
green tax
pathogens
Coriolis effect
salinization
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.
arable
convection
fault
Superfund Program
5. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.
R horizon
primary succession
dose-response analysis
stationary sources
6. When grass is consumed by animals at a faster rate than it can regrow.
kinetic energy
overgrazed
capture fisheries
mineral deposit
7. Living or derived from living things.
green tax
symbiotic relationships
biotic potential
biotic
8. The movement of individuals into a population.
petroleum
C layer
trade winds
Immigration
9. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.
nonrenewable resources
Southern Oscillation
Hadley cell
market permits
10. When populations are well below the size dictated by the carrying capacity of the region they live in - they will grow exponentially - but as they approach the carrying capacity - their growth rate will decrease and the size of the population will ev
Headwaters
vector
logistic population growth
market permits
11. A waste product produced by the burning of coal.
weather
clay
fly ash
malnutrition
12. A species whose very presence contributes to an ecosystem's diversity and whose extinction would consequently lead to the extinction of other forms of life.
industrial smog (gray smog)
evolution
greenbelt
keystone species
13. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.
ecosystem capital
hazardous waste
lignite
ozone holes
14. A lowland area - such as a marsh or swamp - that is saturated with moisture - especially when regarded as the natural habitat of wildlife.
wetlands
watershed
toxin
keystone species
15. When ecological succession begins in a virtually lifeless area - such as the area behind a moving glacier.
consumption
primary succession
nonrenewable resources
parasitism
16. The capacity to do work.
alkaline
pioneer species
energy
nitrogen fixation
17. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.
primary succession
building-related illness
divergent boundary
weather
18. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
Infection
habitat
secondary consumers
19. The process of fusing two nuclei.
trophic level
nuclear fusion
A layer
food chain
20. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.
topsoil
silt
red tide
trade winds
21. 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.
estuary
aquifer
petroleum
water-stressed
22. The liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.
low-level radioactive waste
plate boundaries
leachate
La Nina
23. The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into compounds - such as ammonia - by natural agencies or various industrial processes.
nitrogen fixation
food chain
noise pollution
bioaccumulation
24. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 km (30 to 75 miles) per hour.
fault
parasitism
petroleum
tropical storm
25. The observed effect of the Coriolis force - especially the deflection of an object moving above the Earth - rightward in the Northern Hemisphere - and leftward in the Southern Hemisphere.
gray smog (industrial smog)
Aquaculture
non-point source pollution
Coriolis effect
26. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
heterotrophy
hydroelectric power
malnutrition
Second Law of Thermodynamics
27. The process in which soil becomes saltier and saltier until - finally - the salt prevents the growth of plants. Salinization is caused by irrigation because salts brought in with the water remain in the soil as water evaporates.
Uneven-aged management
fission
First Law of Thermodynamics
salinization
28. The practice of alternating the crops grown on a piece of land - for example - corn one year - legumes for two years - and then back to corn.
vector
bottom trawling
red tide
crop rotation
29. Sunlight.
Superfund Program
radiant energy
gray smog (industrial smog)
energy pyramid
30. 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.
delta
green tax
invasive species
divergent boundary
31. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.
malnutrition
ecological footprint
crude oil
deep well injection
32. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.
catalytic converter
long lining
contour farming
surface fires
33. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.
mutualism
primary succession
strip mining
energy
34. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
prior appropriation
toxicity
poison
nuclear fusion
35. The energy of motion.
hazardous waste
death rate (crude death rate)
malnutrition
kinetic energy
36. When water rights are given to those who have historically used the water in a certain area.
mutualism
logistic population growth
prior appropriation
B layer
37. The dosage level of a toxin at which a negative effect occurs.
weathering
threshold dose
doldrums
petroleum
38. Nets that are dragged through the water and indiscriminately catch everything in their path.
topsoil
by-catch
driftnets
drip irrigation
39. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
capture fisheries
sludge processor
La Nina
watershed
40. A region of the ocean near the equator - characterized by calms - light winds - or squalls.
Hadley cell
delta
non-point source pollution
doldrums
41. A method of supplying irrigation water through tubes that literally drip water onto the soil at the base of each plant.
drip irrigation
jet stream
vector
weathering
42. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.
total fertility rate
topsoil
secondary consumers
old growth forest
43. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.
U.S. Noise Control Act
red tide
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
species
44. Energy at rest - or stored energy.
potential energy
heat islands
stationary sources
biotic
45. 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.
convection
inner core
symbiotic relationships
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
46. Graphical representations of populations' ages.
convergent boundary
age-structure pyramids
Green Revolution
no-till
47. Radioactive wastes that produce low levels of ionizing radiation.
photochemical smog
low-level radioactive waste
nuclear fusion
malnutrition
48. An introduced - normative species.
invasive species
threshold dose
traditional subsistence agriculture
terracing
49. The outermost shell of the atmosphere - between the mesosphere and outer space - where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.
thermosphere
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
arable
ozone holes
50. The raising of fish and other aquatic species in captivity for harvest.
riparian right
Aquaculture
convection currents
Headwaters