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AP Environmental Science

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






2. The second-purest form of coal.






3. Organisms that reproduce later in life - produce fewer offspring - and devote significant time and energy to the nurturing of their offspring.






4. An introduced - normative species.






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






6. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.






7. 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.






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






9. Organisms that consume primary consumers.






10. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. Drilling a hole in the ground that's below the water table to hold waste.






17. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






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






19. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






20. A lowland area - such as a marsh or swamp - that is saturated with moisture - especially when regarded as the natural habitat of wildlife.






21. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.






22. The outermost shell of the atmosphere - between the mesosphere and outer space - where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.






23. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.






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






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






26. A basic substance; chemically - a substance that absorbs hydrogen ions or releases hydroxyl ions; in reference to natural water - a measure of the base content of the water.






27. When the majority of a building's occupants experience certain symptoms that vary with the amount of time spent in the building.






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






29. When each family in a community grows crops for themselves and rely on animal and human labor to plant and harvest crops.






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






31. The movement of individuals out of a population.






32. The removal of select trees in an area; this leaves the majority of the habitat in place and has less of an impact on the ecosystem.






33. 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.






34. The unit used to describe the volume of fossil fuels.






35. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.






36. The capacity to do work.






37. An organism such as a bacterium or protozoan - that obtains its nourishment through the oxidation of inorganic chemical compounds - as opposed to photosynthesis.






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






39. The water from which a river rises; a source.






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






41. A climate variation that takes place in the tropical Pacific about every three to seven years - for a duration of about one year.






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






43. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.






44. The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources in a region.






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






46. Land that's fit to be cultivated.






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






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






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






50. Graphical representations of populations' ages.







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