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AP Environmental Science

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1. The process of burning.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. An organism that is capable of converting radiant energy or chemical energy into carbohydrates.






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






9. 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.






10. Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.






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






12. States that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.






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






14. A tank filled with aerobic bacteria that's used to treat sewage.






15. Pollutants that are formed by the combination of primary pollutants in the atmosphere.






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






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






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






19. When the size of an organism's natural habitat is reduced - or when development occurs that isolates a habitat.






20. Any water that has been used by humans. This includes human sewage - water drained from showers - tubs - sinks - dishwashers - washing machines - water from industrial processes - and storm water runoff.






21. The movement of individuals into a population.






22. Says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only be transferred and transformed.






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






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






25. The second-purest form of coal.






26. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






27. The third purest form of coal.






28. 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






29. 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.






30. A soil horizon; B receives the minerals and organic materials that are leached out of the A horizon.






31. An underground layer of porous rock - sand - or other material that allows the movement of water between layers of nonporous rock or clay. Aquifers are frequently tapped for wells.






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






33. Radioactive wastes that produce high levels of ionizing radiation.






34. The movement of individuals out of a population.






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






36. When materials - such as plastic or aluminum - are used to rebuild the same product. An example of this is the use of the aluminum from aluminum cans to produce more aluminum cans.






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






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






39. Organisms in the first stages of succession.






40. The dark - crumbly - nutrient-rich material that results from the decomposition of organic material.






41. Open or forested areas built at the outer edge of a city.






42. 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.






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






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






45. A group of modern windmills.






46. 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.






47. A fiscal policy that lowers taxes on income - including wages and profit - and raises taxes on consumption - particularly the unsustainable consumption of non-renewable resources.






48. The molten core of the Earth.






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






50. The edges of tectonic plates.






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