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AP Environmental Science

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






2. 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.






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






4. The A layer of soil is often referred to as topsoil and is most important for plant growth.






5. A soil horizon - horizon C is made up of larger pieces of rock that have not undergone much weathering.






6. The capacity to do work.






7. The process by which specialized bacteria (mostly anaerobic bacteria) convert ammonia to NOy NO2 - and N2 and release it back to the atmosphere.






8. The liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.






9. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.






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






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






12. When one species feeds on another.






13. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






14. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.






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






16. 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.






17. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.






18. 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.






19. The molten core of the Earth.






20. The coarsest soil - with particles 0.05 -2.0 mm in diameter.






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






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






23. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.






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






25. The process that occurs when two different species in a region compete and the better adapted species wins.






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






31. Soil composed of a mixture of sand - clay - silt - and organic matter.






32. A layer of soil.






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






34. Can consist of hazardous waste - industrial solid waste - or municipal waste. Many types of solid waste provide a threat to human health and the environment.






35. Nets that are dragged through the water and indiscriminately catch everything in their path.






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






37. 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






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






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






40. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.






41. To convert or change into a vapor.






42. An introduced - normative species.






43. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of less than 1 -000 m3 per person.






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






45. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






46. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.






47. Poor nutrition that results from an insufficient or poorly balanced diet.






48. Organisms that are capable of interbreeding with one another and incapable of breeding with other species.






49. The movement of individuals into a population.






50. Any compound that releases hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. Also - a water solution that contains a surplus of hydrogen ions.