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AP Environmental Science

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






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






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






4. The outer part of the Earth - consisting of the crust and upper mantle - approximately 100 km (62 miles) thick.






5. Calculating risk - or the degree of likelihood that a person will become ill upon exposure to a toxin or pathogen.






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






7. The third purest form of coal.






8. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.






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






10. Soil with particles 0.002 -0.05 mm in diameter.






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






12. Is the practice of planting bands of different crops across a hillside.






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






14. When one species feeds on another.






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






16. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.






17. A nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus - especially a heavy nucleus such as an isotope of uranium - splits into fragments - usually two fragments of comparable mass - releasing from 100 million to several hundred million electron volts of ener






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






19. A waste product produced by the burning of coal.






20. When an area of vegetation is cut down and burned before being planted with crops.






21. The coarsest soil - with particles 0.05 -2.0 mm in diameter.






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






23. Areas where cutting has occurred and a new - younger forest has arisen.






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






25. The molten core of the Earth.






26. A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America - occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns.






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






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






29. The movement of individuals out of a population.






30. 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






31. Bacteria or fungi that absorb nutrients from nonliving organic matter like plant material - the wastes of living organisms - and corpses. They convert these materials into inorganic forms.






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






33. 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.






34. The process in which plants absorb ammonium (NH3) - ammonia ions (NH4+) - and nitrate ions (NO3) through their roots.






35. A group of modern windmills.






36. 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.






37. A symbiotic relationship in which one member is helped by the association and the other is harmed.






38. Living or derived from living things.






39. When soil becomes water-logged and then dries out - and salt forms a layer on its surface.






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






41. Land that's fit to be cultivated.






42. 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.






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






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






45. Organisms in the first stages of succession.






46. An estimate of the amount of fossil fuel that can be obtained from reserve.






47. Organisms that consume both producers and primary consumers.






48. The maximum population size that can be supported by the available resources in a region.






49. A layer of soil.






50. 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.







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