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AP Environmental Science
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1. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.
carrying capacity
chronic effect
disease
habitat
2. Poor nutrition that results from an insufficient or poorly balanced diet.
malnutrition
pioneer species
industrial smog (gray smog)
no-till
3. Formed from populations of different species occupying the same geographic area.
sick building syndrome
global warming
community
carnivore
4. The unit used to describe the volume of fossil fuels.
upwelling
deep well injection
barrels
biotic potential
5. 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.
chronic effect
carnivore
Infection
A layer
6. 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.
contour farming
predation
O layer
chemical weathering
7. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.
R horizon
lithosphere
acid precipitation
upwelling
8. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.
tropospheric ozone
pathogens
keystone species
plate boundaries
9. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.
active collection
green tax
natural resources
omnivores
10. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.
parasitism
clay
R horizon
terracing
11. A lowland area - such as a marsh or swamp - that is saturated with moisture - especially when regarded as the natural habitat of wildlife.
wetlands
wastewater
natural resources
green tax
12. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.
agroforestry
Infection
nitrification
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
13. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.
silt
anthracite
atmosphere
traditional subsistence agriculture
14. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.
edge effect
extinction
jet stream
La Nina
15. The process of fusing two nuclei.
nuclear fusion
detritivore
biotic
dose-response curve
16. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.
population density
upwelling
community
subbituminous
17. A layer of soil.
threshold dose
logistic population growth
toxin
Horizon
18. The result of a pathogen invading a body.
weather
inner core
secondary pollutants
Infection
19. When water rights are given to those who have historically used the water in a certain area.
prior appropriation
primary pollutants
sludge processor
ecological succession
20. 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.
watershed
ecological footprint
energy pyramid
monoculture
21. A stable - mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.
Uneven-aged management
physical (mechanical) weathering
climax community
contour farming
22. The movement of individuals into a population.
denitrification
wetlands
Immigration
renewable resources
23. Involves the removal of the Earth's surface all the way down to the level of the mineral seam.
tailings
Second Law of Thermodynamics
strip mining
k-selected
24. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.
demographic transition model
alkaline
dose-response analysis
consumption
25. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.
tailings
convection
silviculture
hazardous waste
26. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
ED50
high-level radioactive waste
delta
estuary
27. When soil becomes water-logged and then dries out - and salt forms a layer on its surface.
atmosphere
stationary sources
fossil fuel
land degradation
28. The region draining into river system or other body of water.
topsoil
conservation
watershed
threshold dose
29. The raising of fish and other aquatic species in captivity for harvest.
threshold dose
Superfund Program
subbituminous
Aquaculture
30. The water from which a river rises; a source.
nonrenewable resources
stationary sources
active collection
Headwaters
31. Calculating risk - or the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen.
risk assessment
mantle
estuary
preservation
32. A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.
First Law of Thermodynamics
O layer
mutualism
old growth forest
33. Species that originate and live - or occur naturally - in an area or environment.
indigenous species
primary treatment
ecosystem capital
Half-life
34. Air currents caused by the vertical movement of air due to atmospheric heating and cooling.
abiotic
ecological footprint
convergent boundary
convection currents
35. Pollutants that are formed by the combination of primary pollutants in the atmosphere.
pathogens
secondary pollutants
capture fisheries
wastewater
36. The least pure coal.
Headwaters
lignite
k-selected
thermocline
37. Any noise that causes stress or has the potential to damage human health.
no-till
noise pollution
chemotroph (chemoautotroph)
biological weathering
38. The process in which plants absorb ammonium (NH3) - ammonia ions (NH4+) - and nitrate ions (NO3) through their roots.
climax community
transform boundary
assimilation
volcanoes
39. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.
niche
water-stressed
demographic transition model
atmosphere
40. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.
composting
convergent boundary
Hadley cell
rain shadow
41. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.
nitrification
proven reserve
fission
selective cutting
42. 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
humus
market permits
barrels
by-catch
43. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.
poison
dose-response analysis
realized niche
asthenosphere
44. 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.
intercropping (also called strip cropping)
Gross Primary Productivity
crop rotation
radiant energy
45. In a sewage treatment plant - the initial filtration that is done to remove debris such as stones - sticks - rags - toys - and other objects that were flushed down the toilet.
overburden
combustion
physical treatmen
overgrazed
46. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.
First Law of Thermodynamics
biotic
Hadley cell
barrier island
47. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
biosphere
mineral deposit
habitat
fly ash
48. The amount of sugar that the plants produce in photosynthesis and subtracting from it the amount of energy the plants need for growth maintenance - repair - and reproduction.
indigenous species
toxicity
biomagnifications
Gross Primary Productivity
49. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.
topsoil
non-point source pollution
competitive exclusion
inner core
50. 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.
greenhouse effect
ozone holes
greenbelt
Second Law of Thermodynamics