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vocab for midterm
AP environmental science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Major plant nutrient most likely to be a limiting factor | phosphorus |
| man made processes that emit CO2 | respiration, decomposition, combustion |
| for of nitrogen most usable to plants | ammonia |
| phosphorous salts are released from rocks through | weathering |
| how water is maintained in aquifers | held between two layers of clay (semi or non permeable surface) |
| name several characteristics of developed countries | stable economy, low infant mortality, low death rate |
| US population | 300 million people |
| total fertility rate globally | 2.1 |
| Total fertility developing nationns | 3.9 |
| Total fertility developed nations | 1.3 |
| 2 factors that increase biodiversity | increase in GPP and evolution |
| 2 factors that decrease biodiversity | large environmental disturbance and intro of alien species |
| strategic resource | resource you need but can't produce enough in your own country to sustain the need. Resources would crash w/out it |
| first two energy efficiency reasons | nonrenewable fossil fuels last longer more time to phase in renewables |
| second two energy efficiency reasons | decreases dependents on oil imports lessens needs for military intervention in middle east |
| last 3 energy efficiency reasons | reduces local and global envir. damage cheapest and quickest way to slow global warming saves money+jobs+promotes economic growth |
| how active solar energy works | special collectors absorb solar energy; fan or pump. is used to circulate the heated water. |
| how passive solar energy works | captures sunlight directly and stores collected energy as heat and releases it during the day and cools at night |
| potentially renewable resource | can replenish if it isn't used to fast |
| nonrenewable resource | only so much of it in the world doesn't replenish |
| perpetually renewable resource | humans don't affect it and it can't replenish |
| economically depleted resource | cost of extracting what left is to expensive and not worth it |
| tragedy of the commons | people have complete access to resources and take as much as they want |
| ecological resource | any resource a plant or animal needs to survive |
| economic resource | any resource that meets a human need |
| sustainable yield | jljsdf |
| preindustrial stage | death rates and infant mortality rates are highest |
| industrial stage | drop in birth rates due to better access to birth control |
| transitional stage | rapid increase in birth rate decrease in death rate |
| postindustrial stage | ZPG is typically reached |
| urbanization pros | better access to health care,education, and increased jobs |
| urbanization cons | stress and noise pollution |
| mutualism | both benefit |
| amensalism | one suffers other unaffected |
| parasitism | one benefits other harmed |
| commensalism | one benefits while other is unaffected |
| predation | one benefits while the other is killed |
| neutralism | they cross paths but neither is affected by the other |
| GDP | initial value of all goods and services produced within a country |
| GNP | initial value of all goods and services produced by country's businesses in or outside the country |
| per capita GNP | shows individuals slice of the economic pie |
| affluenza | physiological disorder were people need the newest and most improved thing out always upgrading |
| internal costs | initial price you pay |
| external costs | other prices such as environmental cost and transportation |
| Full cost pricing | all the prices to make a product including environmental cost |
| water mining | taking water out of a aquifer faster than it can replenish |
| watershed | area of land that is a basin for a larger area of water |
| El Nino | westerly winds weaken causes cold nutrient water to be supressed |
| anthropocentric | when you think humans are the center of the universe |
| dust domes | pollution getting trapped in our air above a city |
| dust plumes | pollution gets blown out of the city |
| greenbelt | land set aside outside of a big city reserved for parks and forests |
| genetic diversity | genetic variability among individuals within each species |
| ecological diversity | variety of ecosystems |
| species diversity | variety of different species |
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