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| 13828009837 | Advantages to living in groups | protection from predators, increased chances of mating, division of labor, greater success obtaining prey | 0 | |
| 13846596392 | Active Systems | use of fluids to absorb heat, a solar collector is positioned on the roof of buildings and heats the fluid and pumps it through a system of pipes in the building | 1 | |
| 13846617512 | Andes mountains | nazca (oceanic plate) and South American (continental plate) crashed | 2 | |
| 13846623091 | Arable | able to be used for agriculture | 3 | |
| 13846626150 | Artisan well | a well drilled into an aquifer | 4 | |
| 13846628578 | Cogeneration | using waste heat to produce electricity | 5 | |
| 13846632347 | Electrostatic precipitator | attracts PM and dust via electrical attraction | 6 | |
| 13846635021 | Evapotranspiration | combination of transpiration and evaporation | 7 | |
| 13846638576 | Fertility | the ability to have children | 8 | |
| 13846640733 | Fecundity | the ability to have children | 9 | |
| 13846648572 | Flue Gas Desulfurization | wet, spray, dry and dry scrubbers, wet snubbers are more efficient at preventing sulfur dioxide emissions than dry scrubbers | 10 | |
| 13846657057 | Fujita scale | scale for tornado intensity (F0-F5) | 11 | |
| 13846660472 | Fluidized bed combustion | used on low quality and high sulfur content coals, limestone or dolomite are introduced into the bed of coal, they neutralize sulfur dioxide before it is emitted | 12 | |
| 13846670478 | Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 | set pesticide limits in food and all active and inactive ingredients must be screened for estrogenic/endocrine effects | 13 | |
| 13846674438 | Himalayas | indian plate and euro-asian plate collision both continental | 14 | |
| 13846678669 | Hypoxia | low oxygen | 15 | |
| 13846680711 | Illuviation | deposit of leached material in the B horizon | 16 | |
| 13846700111 | Indoor air pollutants | asbestos, biological (mold), carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, lead, nitrogen dioxide, pesticides, radon | 17 | |
| 13846706527 | Leapfrog development | development that occurs well beyond the limits of current urbanized areas, usually to take advantage of less expensive land | 18 | |
| 13846713258 | Loam | best soil for agriculture | 19 | |
| 13846717199 | Manufactured capital | resources such as tools and factories | 20 | |
| 13846719441 | Milankovitch cycle | variation in the earth's eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession impact the advancement of retreat of glaciers and climate | 21 | |
| 13846725383 | Minamata disease | 1932-1968 Japan, increased rate of mental impairments caused by Methylmercury poisoning | 22 | |
| 13846730829 | Kwashiorkor | protein diet deficiency | 23 | |
| 13846735030 | Legionnaires disease | lung infection caused caused by breathing in bacteria | 24 | |
| 13846749145 | Ocean dumping ban act of 1988 | bans ocean dumping of sewage sludge and industrial waste in the ocean | 25 | |
| 13846766681 | Orogenesis | the creation of mountains | 26 | |
| 13846774255 | OTEC | ocean thermal electric conversions, a marine renewable energy technology the obtains and converts the solar energy absorbed by the oceans to generate electrical power | 27 | |
| 13846787659 | Magnuson Stevens Act of 1976 | management of marine fisheries | 28 | |
| 13846789777 | Marasmus | calorie and energy diet deficiency | 29 | |
| 13846792422 | National priority list | list of hazardous waste sites in the US | 30 | |
| 13846795977 | Nor'easter | a storm/wind blowing from the NE, happens in New England | 31 | |
| 13846800787 | Passive | building positioning, building that face south experience more sun, the use of large double paned windows in construction to conserve energy | 32 | |
| 13846810470 | Photovoltaic cells | neither passive or active, a tool used to convert solar energy into electrical energy | 33 | |
| 13846827265 | POP | persistent organic pollutants (DDT) | 34 | |
| 13846831585 | Saffir-Simpson scale | hurricane wind scale, 1-5 | 35 | |
| 13846834668 | Shifting cultivation | tropical regions, moving crops from one location to another in a forest, this technique exhausts nutrients, recovery time is 10-30 years | 36 | |
| 13846848100 | Slash and burn cultivation | trees and vegetation in a forest are cut, burned, and the ashes add nutrients to the soil, crops are planted between tree stumps, plots are exhausted for 2-5 years | 37 | |
| 13846860251 | SPM | suspended particulate matter, dust, pollen or ash | 38 | |
| 13846864959 | Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act | regulates the environmental effects of coal mining, regulates active mines and the reclamation of abandoned mines | 39 | |
| 13846869670 | TFR | total fertility rate, the total number of kids a woman will have in her lifetime | 40 | |
| 13846885047 | Urban Heat Island | cities are hotter than surrounding areas because buildings, vehicles and people generate heat, dark building pavement and pollution also absorb heat | 41 | |
| 13846890904 | Watershed | land that delivers water, sediment and dissolved substances via streams to a major river | 42 | |
| 13847087798 | Western and eastern cordillera | of the andes, the most internal and oldest mountain chain | 43 | |
| 13847089376 | Zebra mussels | native to russia and ukraine, freshwater species in the US outcompeting native filter feeders | 44 | |
| 13847119425 | Human Impact on the water cycle | destruction of wetlands, pollution of water sources, sewage and feedlot runoff, building power plants | 45 |
