AP Exam Flashcards

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