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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.






2. The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into compounds - such as ammonia - by natural agencies or various industrial processes.






3. Non-moving sources of pollution - such as factories.






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






5. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.






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






7. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.






8. A stable - mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.






9. The molten core of the Earth.






10. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






11. A model that's used to predict population trends based on the birth and death rates as well as economic status of a population.






12. The process that occurs when two different species in a region compete and the better adapted species wins.






13. Each of the feeding levels in a food chain.






14. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.






15. 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. ...






16. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.






17. The broad category under which selective cutting and shelter-wood cutting fall; selective deforestation.






18. The result of vibrations (often due to plate movements) deep in the Earth that release energy. They often occur as two plates slide past one another at a transform boundary.






19. Any weathering that's caused by the activities of living organisms.






20. When grass is consumed by animals at a faster rate than it can regrow.






21. 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.






22. A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.






23. A bloom of dinoflagellates that causes reddish discoloration of coastal ocean waters. Certain dinoflagellates of the genus Gonyamfox produce toxins that kill fish and contaminate shellfish.






24. Pollutants that are released directly into the lower atmosphere.






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






26. An area in which a particular mineral is concentrated - mining -the excavation of the Earth for the purpose of extracting ore or minerals.






27. Living or derived from living things.






28. Fish farming in which fish are caught in the wild and not raised in captivity for consumption.






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






30. The removal of trees for agricultural purposes or purposes of exportation.






31. The amount of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to disappear.






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






33. A semiconductor device that converts the energy of sunlight into electric energy.






34. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.






35. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.






36. 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.






37. Transition in species composition of a biological community - often following ecological disturbance of the community; the establishment of a biological community in any area virtually barren of life.






38. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






39. 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.






40. The gradual breakdown of rock into smaller and smaller particles - caused by natural chemical - physical - and biological factors.






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






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






43. Formed from populations of different species occupying the same geographic area.






44. The observed effect of the Coriolis force - especially the deflection of an object moving above the Earth - rightward in the Northern Hemisphere - and leftward in the Southern Hemisphere.






45. Fires that typically burn only the forest's underbrush and do little damage to mature trees. Surface fires actually serve to protect the forest from more harmful fires by removing underbrush and dead materials that would burn quickly and at high temp






46. The region draining into river system or other body of water.






47. A species whose very presence contributes to an ecosystem's diversity and whose extinction would consequently lead to the extinction of other forms of life.






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






49. A place where a large quantity of a resource sits for a long period of time.






50. An effect that results from long -term exposure to low levels of toxin.