AP Environmental Science Key Vocabulary
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| Anthropogenic | show 🗑
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| Biodiversity | show 🗑
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| Biomass | show 🗑
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| Bottleneck effect | show 🗑
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| show | The arrival of individuals to areas of suitable habitat that are currently uninhabited
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| show | The non-material benefits that people obtain from ecosystems through recreation, tourism, intellectual development, spiritual enrichment, reflection and creative and aesthetic experiences.
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| show | the process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time. Two different types of succession primary and secondary
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| show | The range of conditions in which a species can survive.
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| show | Important environmental benefits, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and fertile soil in which to grow crops, that ecosystems provide to people.
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| Episodic | show 🗑
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| Flow Rate | show 🗑
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| show | Species with a broad ecological niche. They can live in many different places, eat a variety of foods, and tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions.
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| show | the range of different inherited traits within a species
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| show | the range of habitats present in a region
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| show | A species that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm.
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| show | biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification of isolated natural communities.
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| Migration | show 🗑
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| Natural disruption | show 🗑
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| show | Describes something that occurs or repeats at regular intervals
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| show | First species to populate an area during primary succession.
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| provisioning ecosystem services | show 🗑
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| regulating ecosystem services | show 🗑
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| show | A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid
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| secondary succession | show 🗑
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| specialist species | show 🗑
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| show | An ecological succession that begins in an area where no biotic community previously existed
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| show | the number of different species in a defined region.
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| show | Ecosystem services that are necessary for the production of all other ecosystem services.
- biomass
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- production of atmospheric oxygen
- soil formation and retention
- nutrient cycling
- water cycling
- provisioning of habitat.
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