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AP Environmental Science
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1. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 km (30 to 75 miles) per hour.
overburden
water-stressed
anthracite
tropical storm
2. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.
poison
overburden
chemical weathering
mutualism
3. The number of live births per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.
industrial smog (gray smog)
overburden
birth rate (crude birth rate)
biotic
4. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.
realized niche
Hadley cell
prior appropriation
chemical weathering
5. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels - especially coal.
gray smog (industrial smog)
delta
respiration
toxicity
6. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
watershed
food chain
natural selection
gray smog (industrial smog)
7. The water from which a river rises; a source.
proven reserve
dose-response analysis
Headwaters
predation
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.
extinction
niche
abiotic
Superfund Program
9. The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.
biomagnifications
law of conservation of matter
silt
tailings
10. Also known as plantations - these are planted and managed tracts of trees of the same age that are harvested for commercial use.
building-related illness
replacement birth rate
tree farms
conservation
11. To convert or change into a vapor.
Aquaculture
autotroph
evaporation
La Nina
12. The result of a pathogen invading a body.
Infection
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
C layer
biotic potential
13. A symbiotic relationship in which one member is helped by the association and the other is harmed.
r-selected
watershed
logistic population growth
parasitism
14. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of about 1 -000 -2 -000 m3 per person.
acid precipitation
photosynthesis
convection
water-stressed
15. The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to disappear.
subbituminous
Uneven-aged management
Half-life
secondary consumers
16. Non-moving sources of pollution - such as factories.
second growth forests
stationary sources
earthquake
wastewater
17. Also known as transform faults - boundaries at which plates are moving past each other - sideways.
k-selected
El Nino
transform boundary
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
18. Radioactive wastes that produce low levels of ionizing radiation.
salinization
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
weathering
low-level radioactive waste
19. Resources that are often formed by very slow geologic processes - so we consider them incapable of being regenerated within the realm of human existence.
green tax
consumption
nonrenewable resources
silviculture
20. 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.
primary pollutants
acid precipitation
land degradation
erosion
21. A layer of soil.
poison
Horizon
toxin
Southern Oscillation
22. The value of natural resources.
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
water-stressed
ecosystem capital
mineral deposit
23. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.
respiration
contour farming
Gross Primary Productivity
chronic effect
24. An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten lava - ash - and gases are ejected.
sand
tertiary consumers
water-stressed
volcanoes
25. A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America - occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns.
Uneven-aged management
La Nina
arable
food chain
26. Devices containing alkaline substances that precipitate out much of the sulfur dioxide from industrial plants.
emigration
plate boundaries
asthenosphere
scrubbers
27. The more or less constant winds blowing in horizontal directions over the Earth's surface - as part of Hadley cells.
emigration
overburden
trade winds
arable
28. The result of vibrations (often due to plate movements) deep in the Earth that release energy. They often occur as two plates slide past one another at a transform boundary.
risk assessment
convergent boundary
combustion
earthquake
29. 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.
passive solar energy collection
petroleum
trophic level
asthenosphere
30. The total sum of a species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment.
niche
total fertility rate
nitrogen fixation
potential energy
31. 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.
carnivore
disease
Second Law of Thermodynamics
acid precipitation
32. This category includes organisms that consume producers (plants and algae).
primary consumers
asthenosphere
second growth forests
wastewater
33. Soil composed of a mixture of sand - clay - silt - and organic matter.
atmosphere
riparian right
heterotrophy
loamy
34. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
traditional subsistence agriculture
habitat
ecosystem capital
mantle
35. The amount of the Earth's surface that's necessary to supply the needs of - and dispose of the waste from a particular population.
green tax
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
ecological footprint
bioaccumulation
36. Is equal to the number of deaths per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.
strip mining
death rate (crude death rate)
r-selected
U.S. Noise Control Act
37. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.
consumption
Aquaculture
sick building syndrome
water-scarce
38. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.
carnivore
greenhouse effect
primary consumers
natural resources
39. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.
extinction
overburden
Headwaters
heat islands
40. The development and introduction of new varieties of (mainly) wheat and rice that has increased yields per acre dramatically in countries since the 1960s.
climax community
wastewater
acid
Green Revolution
41. The edges of tectonic plates.
biosphere
plate boundaries
riparian right
assimilation
42. Sunlight.
inner core
radiant energy
birth rate (crude birth rate)
evaporation
43. The right - as to fishing or to the use of a riverbed - of one who owns riparian land (the land adjacent to a river or stream).
consumer
convergent boundary
alkaline
riparian right
44. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.
biotic potential
wetlands
no-till
edge effect
45. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
producer
population
overburden
ecological succession
46. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.
estuary
secondary treatment
weather
preservation
47. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.
Aquaculture
jet stream
symbiotic relationships
upwelling
48. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.
tailings
replacement birth rate
Hadley cell
riparian right
49. Power generated using water.
abiotic
hydroelectric power
detritivore
wetlands
50. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.
El Nino
convergent boundary
convection currents
food web