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AP Environmental Science

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1. The result of graphing a dose-response analysis.






2. When ecological succession begins in a virtually lifeless area - such as the area behind a moving glacier.






3. 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.






4. The industry or occupation devoted to the catching - processing - or selling of fish - shellfish - or other aquatic animals.






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






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






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






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






9. Involves the removal of the Earth's surface all the way down to the level of the mineral seam.






10. 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.






11. The atmospheric pressure conditions corresponding to the periodic warming of El Nino and cooling of La Nina.






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






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






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






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






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






17. Organisms that reproduce later in life - produce fewer offspring - and devote significant time and energy to the nurturing of their offspring.






18. 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.






19. An organism such as a bacterium or protozoan - that obtains its nourishment through the oxidation of inorganic chemical compounds - as opposed to photosynthesis.






20. The maintenance of a species or ecosystem in order to ensure their perpetuation - with no concern as to their potential monetary value






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






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






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






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






25. Organisms that derive energy from consuming nonliving organic matter.






26. Refers to when farmers plant seeds without using a plow to turn the soil.






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






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






29. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.






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






31. The place where two plates abut each other.






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






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






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






35. The movement of individuals into a population.






36. A hydrocarbon that forms as sediments are buried and pressurized.






37. When physically treated sewage water is passed into a settling tank - where suspended solids settle out as sludge; chemically treated polymers may be added to help the suspended solids separate and settle out.






38. The result of a pathogen invading a body.






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. The effect caused by a short exposure to a high level of toxin.






45. Any noise that causes stress or has the potential to damage human health.






46. An introduced - normative species.






47. 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. ...






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






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






50. 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).