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AP Environmental Science
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1. The amount of sugar that the plants produce in photosynthesis and subtracting from it the amount of energy the plants need for growth maintenance - repair - and reproduction.
long lining
community
convergent boundary
Gross Primary Productivity
2. The place where two plates abut each other.
biomagnifications
fault
birth rate (crude birth rate)
demographic transition model
3. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.
hydroelectric power
global warming
deforestation
proven reserve
4. A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean - traveling north - northwest - or northeast from its point of origin - and usually involving heavy rains.
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
Infection
Immigration
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
5. An organism that obtains organic food molecules without eating other organisms or substances derived from other organisms. autotrophs use energy from the sun or from the oxidation of inorganic substances to make organic molecules from inorganic ones.
greenbelt
mantle
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
autotroph
6. 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.
selective cutting
albedo
green tax
toxin
7. 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.
overgrazed
food web
pioneer species
primary treatment
8. A program funded by the federal government and a trust that's funded by taxes on chemicals; identifies pollutants and cleans up hazardous waste sites.
community
Superfund Program
El Nino
vector
9. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.
genetic drift
R horizon
topsoil
ED50
10. Refers to resources - such as plants and animals - which can be regenerated if harvested at sustainable yields.
A layer
renewable resources
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
emigration
11. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.
loamy
community
riparian right
sludge processor
12. Any substance than is inhaled - ingested - or absorbed at dosages sufficient to damage a living organism.
tertiary consumers
wetlands
autotroph
toxin
13. When water rights are given to those who have historically used the water in a certain area.
high-level radioactive waste
prior appropriation
First Law of Thermodynamics
biomagnifications
14. A process that allows the organic material in solid waste to be decomposed and reintroduced into the soil - often as fertilizer.
composting
combustion
edge effect
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
15. The third purest form of coal.
loamy
subbituminous
silt
fission
16. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.
consumption
biomagnifications
demographic transition model
producer
17. A stable - mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.
climax community
hazardous waste
birth rate (crude birth rate)
acute effect
18. A nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus - especially a heavy nucleus such as an isotope of uranium - splits into fragments - usually two fragments of comparable mass - releasing from 100 million to several hundred million electron volts of ener
habitat fragmentation
age-structure pyramids
non-point source pollution
fission
19. The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.
volcanoes
slash-and-burn
biomagnifications
El Nino
20. The energy of motion.
birth rate (crude birth rate)
kinetic energy
surface fires
bottom trawling
21. Organisms that derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter.
lithosphere
no-till
selective cutting
detritivore
22. A place where a large quantity of a resource sits for a long period of time.
transform boundary
clear-cutting
reservoir
long lining
23. 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
transpiration
scrubbers
petroleum
24. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.
coral reef
parasitism
old growth forest
community
25. 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.
abiotic
species
genetic drift
fossil fuel
26. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.
threshold dose
habitat
water-scarce
parasitism
27. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
biotic potential
El Nino
edge effect
Uneven-aged management
28. When the majority of a building's occupants experience certain symptoms that vary with the amount of time spent in the building.
topsoil
secondary pollutants
sick building syndrome
weather
29. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
assimilation
low-level radioactive waste
global warming
subduction zone
30. Involves the sinking of shafts to reach underground deposits. In this type of mining - networks of tunnels are dug or blasted and humans enter these tunnels in order to manually retrieve the coal.
O layer
green tax
underground mining
humus
31. Devices containing alkaline substances that precipitate out much of the sulfur dioxide from industrial plants.
A layer
scrubbers
Uneven-aged management
topsoil
32. The coarsest soil - with particles 0.05 -2.0 mm in diameter.
sand
passive solar energy collection
low-level radioactive waste
biosphere
33. When mature trees are cut over a period of time (usually10 -20 years); this leaves mature trees - which can reseed the forest - in place.
humus
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
r-selected
shelter-wood cutting
34. The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into compounds - such as ammonia - by natural agencies or various industrial processes.
bituminous
nitrogen fixation
monoculture
barrier island
35. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.
nitrogen fixation
long lining
Green Revolution
nitrification
36. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.
tree farms
ecological succession
green tax
convergent boundary
37. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.
sludge processor
tailings
crude oil
nonrenewable resources
38. The process by which specialized bacteria (mostly anaerobic bacteria) convert ammonia to NOy NO2 - and N2 and release it back to the atmosphere.
keystone species
denitrification
subduction zone
evaporation
39. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals and resulting in the development of new species.
habitat
evolution
subduction zone
competitive exclusion
40. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.
assimilation
competitive exclusion
humus
hazardous waste
41. Each of the feeding levels in a food chain.
subbituminous
acute effect
threshold dose
trophic level
42. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.
low-level radioactive waste
tropospheric ozone
lithosphere
Infection
43. Is equal to the number of deaths per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.
ecological footprint
death rate (crude death rate)
disease
solid waste
44. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.
dose-response analysis
disease
second growth forests
toxicity
45. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.
detritivore
realized niche
physical treatmen
subbituminous
46. The development and introduction of new varieties of (mainly) wheat and rice that has increased yields per acre dramatically in countries since the 1960s.
Green Revolution
ecological footprint
crop rotation
disease
47. The water from which a river rises; a source.
sludge
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
Headwaters
O layer
48. Fires that typically burn only the forest's underbrush and do little damage to mature trees. Surface fires actually serve to protect the forest from more harmful fires by removing underbrush and dead materials that would burn quickly and at high temp
assimilation
upwelling
primary pollutants
surface fires
49. Pollutants that are released directly into the lower atmosphere.
weathering
primary pollutants
Uneven-aged management
alkaline
50. The edges of tectonic plates.
nonrenewable resources
gray smog (industrial smog)
plate boundaries
salinization