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AP Environmental Science

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1. The act or process of transpiring - or releasing water vapor - especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.






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






3. The management or regulation of a resource so that its use does not exceed the capacity of the resource to regenerate itself.






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






5. The gradual breakdown of rock into smaller and smaller particles - caused by natural chemical - physical - and biological factors.






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






7. Refers to when farmers plant seeds without using a plow to turn the soil.






8. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.






9. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.






10. Resources that are often formed by very slow geologic processes - so we consider them incapable of being regenerated within the realm of human existence.






11. 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.






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






13. The place where two plates abut each other.






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






15. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






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






17. A long - relatively narrow island running parallel to the mainland-built up by the action of waves and currents and serving to protect the coast from erosion by surf and tidal surges.






18. The movement of individuals out of a population.






19. A layer of soil.






20. 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.






21. Any substance than is inhaled - ingested - or absorbed at dosages sufficient to damage a living organism.






22. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.






23. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.






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






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






26. Bacteria or fungi that absorb nutrients from nonliving organic matter like plant material - the wastes of living organisms - and corpses. They convert these materials into inorganic forms.






27. Also known as plantations - these are planted and managed tracts of trees of the same age that are harvested for commercial use.






28. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.






29. 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.






30. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.






31. Any water that has been used by humans. This includes human sewage - water drained from showers - tubs - sinks - dishwashers - washing machines - water from industrial processes - and storm water runoff.






32. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.






33. The second-purest form of coal.






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. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.






36. 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






37. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.






38. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.






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






40. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.






41. The process by which - according to Darwin's theory of evolution - only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations - while those less adap






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






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






44. The total sum of a species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment.






45. A region of the ocean near the equator - characterized by calms - light winds - or squalls.






46. An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten lava - ash - and gases are ejected.






47. A method of supplying irrigation water through tubes that literally drip water onto the soil at the base of each plant.






48. Is equal to the number of deaths per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.






49. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.






50. Organisms that consume primary consumers.