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AP Environmental Science
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1. Living or derived from living things.
capture fisheries
biotic
energy pyramid
sludge
2. 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.
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
food web
secondary treatment
by-catch
3. 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.
convergent boundary
solid waste
point source pollution
albedo
4. 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.
denitrification
crop rotation
shelter-wood cutting
wind farm
5. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of about 1 -000 -2 -000 m3 per person.
atmosphere
k-selected
passive solar energy collection
water-stressed
6. The second-purest form of coal.
risk assessment
bituminous
natural selection
biotic
7. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.
ozone holes
El Nino
consumption
Second Law of Thermodynamics
8. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.
hydroelectric power
sand
extinction
predation
9. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.
energy
birth rate (crude birth rate)
doldrums
tertiary consumers
10. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.
hazardous waste
Half-life
photosynthesis
keystone species
11. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.
population
barrels
vector
convection
12. The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to disappear.
acute effect
Half-life
natural resources
secondary treatment
13. A soil horizon; the layer below the O layer is called the A layer. The A layer is formed of weathered rock - with some organic material; often referred to as topsoil.
biotic potential
logistic population growth
A layer
weathering
14. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.
poison
barrier island
water-scarce
energy pyramid
15. The finest soil - made up of particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter.
biomagnifications
secondary pollutants
earthquake
clay
16. Piles of gangue - which is the waste material that results from mining.
habitat
tailings
earthquake
Infection
17. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.
biosphere
C layer
shelter-wood cutting
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
18. A soil horizon; B receives the minerals and organic materials that are leached out of the A horizon.
toxin
B layer
Uneven-aged management
population
19. Formed from populations of different species occupying the same geographic area.
renewable resources
First Law of Thermodynamics
prior appropriation
community
20. The number of individuals of a population that inhabit a certain unit of land or water area.
reservoir
abiotic
mantle
population density
21. The vertical movement of a mass of matter due to heating and cooling; this can happen in both the atmosphere and Earth's mantle.
coral reef
convection
leachate
topsoil
22. The maintenance of a species or ecosystem in order to ensure their perpetuation - with no concern as to their potential monetary value
preservation
food chain
weather
ecological succession
23. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
competitive exclusion
Uneven-aged management
A layer
secondary treatment
24. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.
salinization
crude oil
sludge
anthracite
25. A lowland area - such as a marsh or swamp - that is saturated with moisture - especially when regarded as the natural habitat of wildlife.
C layer
wetlands
loamy
heat islands
26. The number of live births per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.
primary succession
secondary pollutants
birth rate (crude birth rate)
transpiration
27. The act or process of transpiring - or releasing water vapor - especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.
primary treatment
law of conservation of matter
transpiration
La Nina
28. The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.
logistic population growth
sludge
habitat fragmentation
biomagnifications
29. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.
acid precipitation
decomposer
sand
dose-response curve
30. A region of the ocean near the equator - characterized by calms - light winds - or squalls.
sludge
monoculture
renewable resources
doldrums
31. An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten lava - ash - and gases are ejected.
volcanoes
watershed
primary succession
crop rotation
32. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.
long lining
Southern Oscillation
death rate (crude death rate)
silt
33. 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.
trophic level
potential energy
primary consumers
energy pyramid
34. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.
climax community
petroleum
symbiotic relationships
evolution
35. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.
strip mining
green tax
replacement birth rate
fission
36. The amount of the Earth's surface that's necessary to supply the needs of - and dispose of the waste from a particular population.
El Nino
ecological footprint
consumer
physical (mechanical) weathering
37. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.
First Law of Thermodynamics
respiration
primary consumers
active collection
38. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.
U.S. Noise Control Act
hazardous waste
fishery
fossil fuel
39. The removal of trees for agricultural purposes or purposes of exportation.
biosphere
market permits
deforestation
predation
40. Drilling a hole in the ground that's below the water table to hold waste.
asthenosphere
deep well injection
rain shadow
omnivores
41. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
nonrenewable resources
consumption
dose-response curve
delta
42. Is the practice of planting bands of different crops across a hillside.
stationary sources
parasitism
fishery
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
43. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.
toxicity
dose-response curve
Second Law of Thermodynamics
building-related illness
44. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
toxicity
secondary pollutants
parasitism
barrier island
45. A place where a large quantity of a resource sits for a long period of time.
deforestation
reservoir
Southern Oscillation
denitrification
46. A layer in a large body of water - such as a lake - that sharply separates regions differing in temperature - so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt.
radiant energy
upwelling
thermocline
wind farm
47. 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.
heterotrophy
Infection
Superfund Program
upwelling
48. 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
anthracite
overburden
market permits
R horizon
49. The process in which plants absorb ammonium (NH3) - ammonia ions (NH4+) - and nitrate ions (NO3) through their roots.
assimilation
Hadley cell
La Nina
malnutrition
50. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.
upwelling
terracing
fishery
consumer