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AP Environmental Science

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1. Bacteria - virus - or other microorganisms that can cause disease.






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






3. A plate boundary where two plates are moving toward each other.






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






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






6. A high-speed - meandering wind current - generally moving from a westerly direction at speeds often exceeding 400 km (250 miles) per hour at altitudes of 15 to 25 km (10 to 15 miles).






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






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






9. The random fluctuations in the frequency of the appearance of a gene in a small isolated population - presumably owing to chance - rather than natural selection.






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






11. Graphical representations of populations' ages.






12. An animal that only consumes other animals.






13. The capacity to do work.






14. The management of forest plantations for the purpose of harvesting timber.






15. The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica (and to some extent - over the Arctic).






16. A method of supplying irrigation water through tubes that literally drip water onto the soil at the base of each plant.






17. 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.






18. Ozone that exists in the trophosphere.






19. When trees and crops are planted together - creating a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between them.






20. The uppermost horizon of soil. It is primarily made up of organic material - including waste from organisms - the bodies of decomposing organisms - and live organisms.






21. Close - prolonged associations between two or more different organisms of different species that may - but do not necessarily benefit the members.






22. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.






23. Gave the EPA power to set emission standards for major sources of noise - including transportation - machinery - and construction.






24. The movement of individuals out of a population.






25. The process that occurs when two different species in a region compete and the better adapted species wins.






26. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs.






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






28. The energy of motion.






29. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






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






36. When one species feeds on another.






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






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






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






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






41. The accumulation of a substance - such as a toxic chemical - in various tissues of a living organism.






42. The form petroleum takes when in the ground.






43. A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America - occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns.






44. Organisms that are capable of interbreeding with one another and incapable of breeding with other species.






45. Energy at rest - or stored energy.






46. The least pure coal.






47. Any waste that poses a danger to human health; it must be dealt with in a different way from other types of waste.






48. The outermost shell of the atmosphere - between the mesosphere and outer space - where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.






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






50. A fishing technique in which the ocean floor is literally scraped by heavy nets that smash everything in their path.