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AP Environmental Science
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1. The molten core of the Earth.
abiotic
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
inner core
coral reef
2. The result of a pathogen invading a body.
decomposer
respiration
Infection
transpiration
3. An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
bioaccumulation
omnivores
C layer
heterotrophy
4. Air currents caused by the vertical movement of air due to atmospheric heating and cooling.
ecosystem capital
transpiration
biotic
convection currents
5. A group of modern windmills.
ecological succession
population
wind farm
ecosystem capital
6. The third purest form of coal.
ED50
agroforestry
subbituminous
habitat
7. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.
replacement birth rate
chemical weathering
population density
ecological footprint
8. Any weathering that's caused by the activities of living organisms.
biological weathering
A layer
pathogens
old growth forest
9. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
monoculture
scrubbers
petroleum
Green Revolution
10. A process in which an organism is exposed to a toxin at different concentrations - and the dosage that causes the death of the organism is recorded.
riparian right
scrubbers
physical (mechanical) weathering
dose-response analysis
11. The effect caused by a short exposure to a high level of toxin.
evaporation
divergent boundary
acute effect
wastewater
12. Also known as transform faults - boundaries at which plates are moving past each other - sideways.
convergent boundary
riparian right
jet stream
transform boundary
13. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.
fossil fuel
acid precipitation
potential energy
greenbelt
14. Radioactive wastes that produce high levels of ionizing radiation.
death rate (crude death rate)
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
high-level radioactive waste
tailings
15. The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources in a region.
tertiary consumers
silt
wind farm
carrying capacity
16. Organisms in the first stages of succession.
overgrazed
food web
shelter-wood cutting
pioneer species
17. Energy at rest - or stored energy.
ED50
volcanoes
age-structure pyramids
potential energy
18. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
estuary
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
arable
convection
19. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.
slash-and-burn
vector
low-level radioactive waste
plate boundaries
20. Each of the feeding levels in a food chain.
birth rate (crude birth rate)
trophic level
capture fisheries
acid precipitation
21. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
capture fisheries
carnivore
watershed
silt
22. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.
symbiotic relationships
edge effect
heat islands
industrial smog (gray smog)
23. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.
atmosphere
silt
water-scarce
pioneer species
24. Graphical representations of populations' ages.
bottom trawling
age-structure pyramids
community
clay
25. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.
delta
subduction zone
petroleum
prior appropriation
26. The point at which 50 percent of the test organisms die from a toxin.
LD50
driftnets
respiration
nonrenewable resources
27. The act or process of transpiring - or releasing water vapor - especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of the skin.
subduction zone
ecological succession
transpiration
detritivore
28. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
biosphere
capture fisheries
Hadley cell
water-stressed
29. The development and introduction of new varieties of (mainly) wheat and rice that has increased yields per acre dramatically in countries since the 1960s.
denitrification
poison
Green Revolution
Horizon
30. The process in which animals (and plants!) breathe and give off carbon dioxide from cellular metabolism.
respiration
O layer
low-level radioactive waste
petroleum
31. A process that allows the organic material in solid waste to be decomposed and reintroduced into the soil - often as fertilizer.
erosion
Uneven-aged management
composting
barrels
32. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.
secondary treatment
emigration
deforestation
proven reserve
33. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.
fission
long lining
dose-response curve
overgrazed
34. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.
demographic transition model
risk assessment
evaporation
water-scarce
35. 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.
tropical storm
fault
genetic drift
population density
36. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.
silviculture
heterotrophy
parasitism
autotroph
37. Radioactive wastes that produce low levels of ionizing radiation.
acid
low-level radioactive waste
slash-and-burn
water-stressed
38. To convert or change into a vapor.
B layer
replacement birth rate
radiant energy
evaporation
39. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.
natural resources
old growth forest
tertiary consumers
birth rate (crude birth rate)
40. 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.
stationary sources
petroleum
O layer
deep well injection
41. Organisms that reproduce early in life and often and have a high capacity for reproductive growth.
r-selected
physical (mechanical) weathering
monoculture
wastewater
42. 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.
plate boundaries
age-structure pyramids
primary treatment
agroforestry
43. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.
evaporation
tropospheric ozone
photochemical smog
coral reef
44. Organisms that derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter.
weather
LD50
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
detritivore
45. 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.
capture fisheries
habitat
thermocline
wetlands
46. The solids that remain after the secondary treatment of sewage.
Uneven-aged management
sludge
assimilation
by-catch
47. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.
consumption
Uneven-aged management
logistic population growth
global warming
48. Any noise that causes stress or has the potential to damage human health.
dose-response curve
noise pollution
pioneer species
Headwaters
49. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back into space.
sludge processor
competitive exclusion
ecological succession
albedo
50. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
traditional subsistence agriculture
habitat
subduction zone
physical (mechanical) weathering