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AP Environmental Science

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






2. The process in which soil bacteria convert ammonium (NH4+) to a form that can be used by plants; nitrate - or NO3.






3. A succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and - in turn - is preyed upon by a higher member.






4. Pollution that does not have a specific point of release - open -loop recycling -when materials are reused to form new products.






5. A soil horizon - horizon C is made up of larger pieces of rock that have not undergone much weathering.






6. The cleanest-burning coal; almost pure carbon.






7. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels - especially coal.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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.






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






12. The accumulation of a substance - such as a toxic chemical - in various tissues of a living organism.






13. Living or derived from living things.






14. The unit used to describe the volume of fossil fuels.






15. Pertaining to factors or things that are separate and independent from living things; nonliving.






16. The place where two plates abut each other.






17. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.






18. 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.






19. Piles of gangue - which is the waste material that results from mining.






20. A basic substance; chemically - a substance that absorbs hydrogen ions or releases hydroxyl ions; in reference to natural water - a measure of the base content of the water.






21. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back into space.






22. A lowland area - such as a marsh or swamp - that is saturated with moisture - especially when regarded as the natural habitat of wildlife.






23. An animal that only consumes other animals.






24. Creating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface - which reduces soil runoff from the slope.






25. An introduced - normative species.






26. Acid rain - acid hail - acid snow; all of which occur as a result of pollution in the atmosphere.






27. 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.






28. 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).






29. The process in which soil becomes saltier and saltier until - finally - the salt prevents the growth of plants. Salinization is caused by irrigation because salts brought in with the water remain in the soil as water evaporates.






30. Using strategies to reduce the amount of risk (the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen).






31. Drilling a hole in the ground that's below the water table to hold waste.






32. Urban areas that heat up more quickly and retain heat more than do nonurban areas.






33. The carrier organism through which pathogens can attack.






34. This category includes organisms that consume producers (plants and algae).






35. The condition in which - at ecosystem boundaries - there is greater species diversity and biological density than there is in the heart of ecological communities.






36. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.






37. The amount of the Earth's surface that's necessary to supply the needs of - and dispose of the waste from a particular population.






38. A process in which rows of crops are plowed across the hillside; this prevents the erosion that can occur when rows are cut up and down on a slope. ...






39. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.






40. The molten core of the Earth.






41. An organism that is capable of converting radiant energy or chemical energy into carbohydrates.






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






43. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






44. The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.






45. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






46. The second-purest form of coal.






47. A plate boundary at which plates are moving away from each other. This causes an upwelling of magma from the mantle to cool and form new crust.






48. A hydrocarbon deposit - such as petroleum - coal - or natural gas - derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel.






49. A layer of soil.






50. Any other species of fish - mammals - or birds that are caught that are not the target organism.