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AP Environmental Science

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1. A fishing technique in which the ocean floor is literally scraped by heavy nets that smash everything in their path.






2. Countries that have a renewable annual water supply of less than 1 -000 m3 per person.






3. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






4. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.






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






6. When one species feeds on another.






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






8. A process that allows the organic material in solid waste to be decomposed and reintroduced into the soil - often as fertilizer.






9. When ecological succession begins in a virtually lifeless area - such as the area behind a moving glacier.






10. Land that's fit to be cultivated.






11. 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.






12. An introduced - normative species.






13. Nets that are dragged through the water and indiscriminately catch everything in their path.






14. The dark - crumbly - nutrient-rich material that results from the decomposition of organic material.






15. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.






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






17. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 km (30 to 75 miles) per hour.






18. 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.






19. Organisms that reproduce early in life and often and have a high capacity for reproductive growth.






20. The more or less constant winds blowing in horizontal directions over the Earth's surface - as part of Hadley cells.






21. 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.






22. The finest soil - made up of particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter.






23. Poor nutrition that results from an insufficient or poorly balanced diet.






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






25. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.






26. The phenomenon whereby the Earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation - caused by the presence in the atmosphere of gases such as carbon dioxide - water vapor - and methane that allow incoming sunlight to pass through - but absorb heat radiated back fr






27. The rocks and Earth that is removed when mining for a commercially valuable mineral resource.






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






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






30. When the majority of a building's occupants experience certain symptoms that vary with the amount of time spent in the building.






31. When the signs and symptoms of an illness can be attributed to a specific infectious organism that resides in the building.






32. The molten core of the Earth.






33. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






34. The industry or occupation devoted to the catching - processing - or selling of fish - shellfish - or other aquatic animals.






35. 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.






36. The part of the mantle that lies just below the lithosphere.






37. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.






38. 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.






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






40. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.






41. When water rights are given to those who have historically used the water in a certain area.






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






43. A platinum - coated device that oxidizes most of the VOCs and some of the CO that would otherwise be emitted in exhaust - converting them to CO2.






44. The biological treatment of wastewater in order to continue to remove biodegradable waste.






45. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.






46. An intensification of the Greenhouse Effect due to the increased presence of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.






47. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.






48. An erosion-resistant marine ridge or mound consisting chiefly of compacted coral together with algal material and biochemically deposited magnesium and calcium carbonates.






49. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.






50. 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.