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AP Environmental Science
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1. Organisms that reproduce early in life and often and have a high capacity for reproductive growth.
Gross Primary Productivity
genetic drift
r-selected
low-level radioactive waste
2. When materials - such as plastic or aluminum - are used to rebuild the same product. An example of this is the use of the aluminum from aluminum cans to produce more aluminum cans.
loamy
aquifer
closed-loop recycling
crop rotation
3. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.
tertiary consumers
biotic potential
denitrification
malnutrition
4. Piles of gangue - which is the waste material that results from mining.
hazardous waste
carrying capacity
tailings
stationary sources
5. The part of the mantle that lies just below the lithosphere.
LD50
stationary sources
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
asthenosphere
6. The rocks and Earth that is removed when mining for a commercially valuable mineral resource.
nitrification
overburden
bioaccumulation
coral reef
7. The management or regulation of a resource so that its use does not exceed the capacity of the resource to regenerate itself.
coral reef
inner core
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
conservation
8. Energy at rest - or stored energy.
ED50
potential energy
weather
symbiotic relationships
9. The atmospheric pressure conditions corresponding to the periodic warming of El Nino and cooling of La Nina.
primary consumers
Southern Oscillation
R horizon
community
10. Any process that breaks rock down into smaller pieces without changing the chemistry of the rock; typically wind and water.
LD50
aquifer
physical (mechanical) weathering
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
11. 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).
jet stream
Aquaculture
high-level radioactive waste
subduction zone
12. 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.
silviculture
water-scarce
sand
aquifer
13. Urban areas that heat up more quickly and retain heat more than do nonurban areas.
heat islands
transpiration
crude oil
barrier island
14. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms die from a toxin.
doldrums
evolution
nuclear fusion
LD50
15. When mature trees are cut over a period of time (usually10 -20 years); this leaves mature trees - which can reseed the forest - in place.
shelter-wood cutting
k-selected
subbituminous
strip mining
16. The place where two plates abut each other.
fault
global warming
mantle
overgrazed
17. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.
niche
chronic effect
population
carrying capacity
18. The process of fusing two nuclei.
nuclear fusion
nonrenewable resources
primary pollutants
age-structure pyramids
19. 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.
Hadley cell
Second Law of Thermodynamics
coral reef
hazardous waste
20. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.
acid precipitation
community
natural resources
Second Law of Thermodynamics
21. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.
evaporation
dose-response curve
passive solar energy collection
active collection
22. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.
Hadley cell
fly ash
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
acid
23. 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.
assimilation
U.S. Noise Control Act
tertiary consumers
photosynthesis
24. When soil becomes water-logged and then dries out - and salt forms a layer on its surface.
land degradation
solid waste
assimilation
transpiration
25. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.
acid precipitation
long lining
heat islands
crude oil
26. The least pure coal.
hazardous waste
humus
anthracite
lignite
27. A layer in a large body of water - such as a lake - that sharply separates regions differing in temperature - so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt.
building-related illness
erosion
thermocline
hazardous waste
28. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.
dose-response analysis
species
Infection
nitrification
29. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.
noise pollution
bottom trawling
Infection
demographic transition model
30. 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.
Coriolis effect
climax community
coral reef
renewable resources
31. The dark - crumbly - nutrient-rich material that results from the decomposition of organic material.
niche
food chain
humus
LD50
32. Air currents caused by the vertical movement of air due to atmospheric heating and cooling.
energy
convection currents
bottom trawling
albedo
33. 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.
wetlands
producer
erosion
energy
34. A platinum - coated device that oxidizes most of the VOCs and some of the CO that would otherwise be emitted in exhaust - converting them to CO2.
lithosphere
detritivore
catalytic converter
deforestation
35. The liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.
leachate
transform boundary
aquifer
reservoir
36. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.
acid
El Nino
building-related illness
pathogens
37. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
overgrazed
watershed
edge effect
population
38. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
nonrenewable resources
secondary treatment
delta
heterotrophy
39. States that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
tropospheric ozone
ecological succession
law of conservation of matter
autotroph
40. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.
dose-response analysis
secondary treatment
land degradation
building-related illness
41. Is the practice of planting bands of different crops across a hillside.
sand
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
inner core
consumption
42. 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.
biomagnifications
high-level radioactive waste
dose-response analysis
r-selected
43. The coarsest soil - with particles 0.05 -2.0 mm in diameter.
sand
risk management
extinction
denitrification
44. 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.
birth rate (crude birth rate)
Headwaters
salinization
lithosphere
45. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of about 1 -000 -2 -000 m3 per person.
overgrazed
nitrification
coral reef
water-stressed
46. The random fluctuations in the frequency of the appearance of a gene in a small isolated population - presumably owing to chance - rather than natural selection.
genetic drift
upwelling
stationary sources
fault
47. Fish farming in which fish are caught in the wild and not raised in captivity for consumption.
species
capture fisheries
potential energy
arable
48. Any noise that causes stress or has the potential to damage human health.
noise pollution
wastewater
Aquaculture
catalytic converter
49. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.
denitrification
strip mining
consumption
B layer
50. 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.
atmosphere
delta
gray smog (industrial smog)
genetic drift