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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.
water-stressed
riparian right
logistic population growth
transpiration
2. A specific location from which pollution is released; an example of a point source location is a factory where wood is being burned.
point source pollution
habitat
greenbelt
primary pollutants
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.
biosphere
slash-and-burn
Superfund Program
surface fires
4. An organism that must obtain food energy from secondary sources - for example - by eating plant or animal matter.
community
vector
consumer
Waste-to-Energy (WTE) program
5. Organisms that reproduce later in life - produce fewer offspring - and devote significant time and energy to the nurturing of their offspring.
loamy
k-selected
crude oil
slash-and-burn
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.
erosion
contour farming
A layer
gray smog (industrial smog)
7. Occurs when infection causes a change in the state of health.
Uneven-aged management
no-till
disease
wind farm
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.
bottom trawling
photochemical smog
crop rotation
convection currents
9. In tectonic plates - the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate.
subduction zone
poison
extinction
capture fisheries
10. The number of children a couple must have in order to replace themselves in a population.
gray smog (industrial smog)
Uneven-aged management
tertiary consumers
replacement birth rate
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
energy pyramid
dose-response curve
petroleum
market permits
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.
primary treatment
land degradation
ED50
solid waste
13. Refers to resources - such as plants and animals - which can be regenerated if harvested at sustainable yields.
biotic potential
renewable resources
First Law of Thermodynamics
bottom trawling
14. The degree to which a substance is biologically harmful.
global warming
food chain
deforestation
toxicity
15. An introduced - normative species.
realized niche
global warming
petroleum
invasive species
16. The result of chemical interaction with the bedrock that is typical of the action of both water and atmospheric gases.
biotic
chemical weathering
land degradation
fly ash
17. A soil horizon - horizon C is made up of larger pieces of rock that have not undergone much weathering.
law of conservation of matter
by-catch
C layer
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
18. A process in which cold - often nutrient-rich - waters from the ocean depths rise to the surface.
jet stream
upwelling
driftnets
demographic transition model
19. A waste product produced by the burning of coal.
tropospheric ozone
atmosphere
fly ash
convection currents
20. Refers to when farmers plant seeds without using a plow to turn the soil.
detritivore
Superfund Program
drip irrigation
no-till
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.
crude oil
scrubbers
food chain
birth rate (crude birth rate)
22. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country; a single - homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
stationary sources
monoculture
drip irrigation
niche
23. A system of vertical and horizontal air circulation predominating in tropical and subtropical regions and creating major weather patterns.
Hadley cell
stationary sources
bituminous
land degradation
24. In fishing - the use of long lines that have baited hooks and will be taken by numerous aquatic organisms.
evolution
food web
omnivores
long lining
25. The coarsest soil - with particles 0.05 -2.0 mm in diameter.
sand
U.S. Noise Control Act
law of conservation of matter
thermocline
26. Any noise that causes stress or has the potential to damage human health.
noise pollution
species
realized niche
hurricane (typhoon - cyclone)
27. The amount of energy that plants pass on to the community of herbivores in an ecosystem.
driftnets
net Primary Productivity (NPP)
vector
deforestation
28. A stable - mature community in a successive series that has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment.
climax community
natural selection
preservation
k-selected
29. The energy of motion.
high-level radioactive waste
Hubbert peak (peak oil)
kinetic energy
photovoltaic cell (PV cell)
30. Organisms that reproduce early in life and often and have a high capacity for reproductive growth.
underground mining
ozone holes
r-selected
closed-loop recycling
31. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back into space.
hydroelectric power
albedo
silt
toxin
32. When a species occupies a smaller niche than it would in the absence of competition.
selective cutting
salinization
realized niche
combustion
33. The finest soil - made up of particles that are less than 0.002 mm in diameter.
consumption
clay
nonrenewable resources
dose-response curve
34. A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area.
bituminous
population
chronic effect
producer
35. The third purest form of coal.
habitat
subbituminous
nuclear fusion
silt
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.
Immigration
age-structure pyramids
keystone species
R horizon
37. When one species feeds on another.
fishery
predation
threshold dose
dose-response curve
38. The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.
thermosphere
peak oil (Hubbert peak)
biomagnifications
secondary treatment
39. The cleanest-burning coal; almost pure carbon.
Half-life
slash-and-burn
biotic
anthracite
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.
divergent boundary
carrying capacity
primary treatment
Superfund Program
41. One that has never been cut; these forests have not been seriously disturbed for several hundred years.
old growth forest
bottom trawling
keystone species
realized niche
42. Organisms that consume secondary consumers or other tertiary consumers.
Second Law of Thermodynamics
tertiary consumers
watershed
keystone species
43. Any compound that releases hydrogen ions when dissolved in water. Also - a water solution that contains a surplus of hydrogen ions.
acid
convection currents
acute effect
food chain
44. Being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.
asthenosphere
total fertility rate
risk management
extinction
45. The amount that the population would grow if there were unlimited resources in its environment.
humus
B layer
biotic potential
conservation
46. Organisms in the first stages of succession.
noise pollution
acute effect
pioneer species
C layer
47. The rocks and Earth that is removed when mining for a commercially valuable mineral resource.
overburden
agroforestry
low-level radioactive waste
asthenosphere
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.
symbiotic relationships
shelter-wood cutting
Gross Primary Productivity
abiotic
49. The day-to-day variations in temperature - air pressure - wind - humidity - and precipitation mediated by the atmosphere in a given region.
selective cutting
erosion
weather
tree farms
50. An intensification of the Greenhouse Effect due to the increased presence of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.
chronic effect
toxicity
driftnets
global warming
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