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AP Environmental Science

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






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






3. 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.






4. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.






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






11. 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






12. Can consist of hazardous waste - industrial solid waste - or municipal waste. Many types of solid waste provide a threat to human health and the environment.






13. Refers to resources - such as plants and animals - which can be regenerated if harvested at sustainable yields.






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






15. An introduced - normative species.






16. The result of chemical interaction with the bedrock that is typical of the action of both water and atmospheric gases.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.






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






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






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






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






27. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.






28. A stable - mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.






29. The energy of motion.






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






31. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back into space.






32. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.






33. The finest soil - made up of particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter.






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






35. The third purest form of coal.






36. A species whose very presence contributes to an ecosystem's diversity and whose extinction would consequently lead to the extinction of other forms of life.






37. When one species feeds on another.






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






39. The cleanest-burning coal; almost pure carbon.






40. 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.






41. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.






42. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.






43. Any compound that releases hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. Also - a water solution that contains a surplus of hydrogen ions.






44. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.






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






46. Organisms in the first stages of succession.






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






48. When mature trees are cut over a period of time (usually10 -20 years); this leaves mature trees - which can reseed the forest - in place.






49. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.






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







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