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AP Environmental Science

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1. The solids that remain after the secondary treatment of sewage.






2. A climate variation that takes place in the tropical Pacific about every three to seven years - for a duration of about one year.






3. The number of children an average woman will bear during her lifetime; this information is based on an analysis of data from preceding years in the population in question.






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






5. Any process that breaks rock down into smaller pieces without changing the chemistry of the rock; typically wind and water.






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






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






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






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






10. A specific location from which pollution is released; an example of a point source location is a factory where wood is being burned.






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






12. Involves the sinking of shafts to reach underground deposits. In this type of mining - networks of tunnels are dug or blasted and humans enter these tunnels in order to manually retrieve the coal.






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






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






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






16. The bedrock - which lies below all of the other layers of soil - is referred to as the R horizon.






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






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






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






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






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






22. When water rights are given to those who have historically used the water in a certain area.






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






24. The molten core of the Earth.






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






26. The low-rainfall region that exists on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain range. This rain shadow is the result of the mountain range's causing precipitation on the windward side.






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






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






29. The removal of all of the trees in an area.






30. 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. ...






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






32. Living or derived from living things.






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






34. A platinum - coated device that oxidizes most of the VOCs and some of the CO that would otherwise be emitted in exhaust - converting them to CO2.






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






36. The process of fusing two nuclei.






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






38. When populations are well below the size dictated by the carrying capacity of the region they live in - they will grow exponentially - but as they approach the carrying capacity - their growth rate will decrease and the size of the population will ev






39. 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






40. The removal of select trees in an area; this leaves the majority of the habitat in place and has less of an impact on the ecosystem.






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. A region of the ocean near the equator - characterized by calms - light winds - or squalls.






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






48. The vertical movement of a mass of matter due to heating and cooling; this can happen in both the atmosphere and Earth's mantle.






49. Species that originate and live - or occur naturally - in an area or environment.






50. The third purest form of coal.