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AP Environmental Science
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1. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.
dose-response curve
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
indigenous species
strip mining
2. When ecological succession begins in a virtually lifeless area - such as the area behind a moving glacier.
primary succession
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
subduction zone
wetlands
3. 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.
energy pyramid
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
strip mining
Immigration
4. The industry or occupation devoted to the catching - processing - or selling of fish - shellfish - or other aquatic animals.
fishery
pioneer species
U.S. Noise Control Act
C layer
5. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.
R horizon
vector
nitrification
species
6. The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources in a region.
sick building syndrome
anthracite
autotroph
carrying capacity
7. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.
alkaline
transform boundary
tropospheric ozone
second growth forests
8. The more or less constant winds blowing in horizontal directions over the Earth's surface - as part of Hadley cells.
hazardous waste
trade winds
radiant energy
ecosystem capital
9. Involves the removal of the Earth's surface all the way down to the level of the mineral seam.
solid waste
decomposer
strip mining
bottom trawling
10. 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
inner core
carnivore
silt
11. The atmospheric pressure conditions corresponding to the periodic warming of El Nino and cooling of La Nina.
El Nino
industrial smog (gray smog)
drip irrigation
Southern Oscillation
12. Pertaining to factors or things that are separate and independent from living things; nonliving.
non-point source pollution
crop rotation
bituminous
abiotic
13. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
Uneven-aged management
high-level radioactive waste
humus
silt
14. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 km (30 to 75 miles) per hour.
sludge processor
gray smog (industrial smog)
tropical storm
R horizon
15. A hydrocarbon deposit - such as petroleum - coal - or natural gas - derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel.
combustion
bituminous
fossil fuel
mutualism
16. When an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops.
Southern Oscillation
El Nino
erosion
slash-and-burn
17. Organisms that reproduce later in life - produce fewer offspring - and devote significant time and energy to the nurturing of their offspring.
parasitism
toxin
k-selected
death rate (crude death rate)
18. 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.
competitive exclusion
emigration
shelter-wood cutting
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
19. An organism such as a bacterium or protozoan - that obtains its nourishment through the oxidation of inorganic chemical compounds - as opposed to photosynthesis.
high-level radioactive waste
ecological footprint
clay
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
20. The maintenance of a species or ecosystem in order to ensure their perpetuation - with no concern as to their potential monetary value
preservation
ED50
total fertility rate
radiant energy
21. The gradual breakdown of rock into smaller and smaller particles - caused by natural chemical - physical - and biological factors.
weathering
competitive exclusion
Uneven-aged management
prior appropriation
22. Each of the feeding levels in a food chain.
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
trophic level
loamy
23. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.
secondary consumers
physical (mechanical) weathering
La Nina
acid precipitation
24. When the majority of a building's occupants experience certain symptoms that vary with the amount of time spent in the building.
earthquake
agroforestry
sick building syndrome
producer
25. Organisms that derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter.
sludge processor
deforestation
detritivore
photochemical smog
26. Refers to when farmers plant seeds without using a plow to turn the soil.
renewable resources
extinction
no-till
bituminous
27. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.
r-selected
active collection
B layer
non-point source pollution
28. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels - especially coal.
monoculture
abiotic
primary succession
gray smog (industrial smog)
29. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.
birth rate (crude birth rate)
upwelling
disease
hydroelectric power
30. A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
composting
risk assessment
food web
ecological footprint
31. The place where two plates abut each other.
Horizon
fault
Gross Primary Productivity
climax community
32. A soil horizon - horizon C is made up of larger pieces of rock that have not undergone much weathering.
C layer
barrels
ecological footprint
secondary consumers
33. Is equal to the number of deaths per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.
invasive species
death rate (crude death rate)
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
atmosphere
34. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
toxicity
sand
food chain
mantle
35. The movement of individuals into a population.
capture fisheries
biotic potential
acid
Immigration
36. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.
lithosphere
prior appropriation
industrial smog (gray smog)
petroleum
37. When physically treated sewage water is passed into a settling tank - where suspended solids settle out as sludge; chemically treated polymers may be added to help the suspended solids separate and settle out.
energy pyramid
biological weathering
biosphere
primary treatment
38. The result of a pathogen invading a body.
Infection
global warming
thermosphere
scrubbers
39. 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.
no-till
convection currents
alkaline
arable
40. A place where a large quantity of a resource sits for a long period of time.
hazardous waste
traditional subsistence agriculture
reservoir
global warming
41. Fish farming in which fish are caught in the wild and not raised in captivity for consumption.
population
photochemical smog
capture fisheries
long lining
42. The condition in which - at ecosystem boundaries - there is greater species diversity and biological density than there is in the heart of ecological communities.
decomposer
secondary consumers
edge effect
tree farms
43. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
industrial smog (gray smog)
mantle
biotic potential
petroleum
44. The effect caused by a short exposure to a high level of toxin.
primary pollutants
kinetic energy
acute effect
passive solar energy collection
45. Any noise that causes stress or has the potential to damage human health.
total fertility rate
LD50
noise pollution
pathogens
46. An introduced - normative species.
invasive species
coral reef
terracing
sludge processor
47. A process in which rows of crops are plowed across the hillside; this prevents the erosion that can occur when rows are cut up and down on a slope. ...
extinction
contour farming
secondary treatment
autotroph
48. When soil becomes water-logged and then dries out - and salt forms a layer on its surface.
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
land degradation
driftnets
nitrogen fixation
49. Devices containing alkaline substances that precipitate out much of the sulfur dioxide from industrial plants.
biotic potential
fishery
scrubbers
radiant energy
50. Using strategies to reduce the amount of risk (the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen).
R horizon
jet stream
risk management
species