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AP Environmental Science

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






2. Any substance that has an LD50 - of 50 mg or less per kg of body weight.






3. The number of live births per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.






4. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.






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






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






7. The water from which a river rises; a source.






8. A program funded by the federal government and a trust that's funded by taxes on chemicals; identifies pollutants and cleans up hazardous waste sites.






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






10. Also known as plantations - these are planted and managed tracts of trees of the same age that are harvested for commercial use.






11. To convert or change into a vapor.






12. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






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






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






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






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






17. Also known as transform faults - boundaries at which plates are moving past each other - sideways.






18. Radioactive wastes that produce low levels of ionizing radiation.






19. Resources that are often formed by very slow geologic processes - so we consider them incapable of being regenerated within the realm of human existence.






20. The process of soil particles being carried away by wind or water. Erosion moves the smaller particles first and hence degrades the soil to a coarser - sandier - stonier texture.






21. A layer of soil.






22. The value of natural resources.






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






24. An opening in the Earth's crust through which molten lava - ash - and gases are ejected.






25. 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.






26. Devices containing alkaline substances that precipitate out much of the sulfur dioxide from industrial plants.






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. Soil composed of a mixture of sand - clay - silt - and organic matter.






34. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.






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






36. Is equal to the number of deaths per 1 -000 members of the population in a year.






37. The day-to-day use of environmental resources as food - clothing - and housing.






38. Biotic and abiotic natural ecosystems.






39. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.






40. The development and introduction of new varieties of (mainly) wheat and rice that has increased yields per acre dramatically in countries since the 1960s.






41. The edges of tectonic plates.






42. Sunlight.






43. 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).






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






45. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.






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






47. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.






48. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.






49. Power generated using water.






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