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AP Environmental Science Vocabulary exam2024
air pollution - presence of unwanted substances in air
noise pollution - presence of unwanted noise
Water pollution - presence of unwanted substance in water
Point Source - pollution that can be traced to specific source
Non-point Source - source of pollution is many or specific, but can't be traced
Sustainable Yield - amount of resources that can be removed/harvested w/o
compromising ecosystem/initial natural capital
sustainable society - society whose processes/function can continue forever
Sustainability - ability to maintain function, state of being, processes
Greenwashing - marketing term for practices that suggest sustainability when its
not
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hunter-gather - small, mobile bands of humans that survive on whatever
resources they have in territory
pastoralism - herding of animals that have been domesticated/partly
domesticated
Agriculture - process of raising crops & livestock in single, sml area
Renewable - Resources that can be replenished at rate =/> rate at which used
Non-Renewable - Resources that cannot be replenished at rate they are used
Potentially Renewable - Resources that are generally renewable, but can become
nonrenewable if not used wisely
Reduce - Limiting the consumption of products, decreases amount of trash &
resources needed overall
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Includes producing and buying fewer goods and services, buying long-lasting
products that do not need to be replaced frequently, and buying smaller sizes of
items
Reuse - Taking old products and using them again, keep waste out of landfills
•Reusing goods in the way they were intended to be used and repurposing them
Recycle - processing used materials into new materials
Breaking down the original product by some physical or chemical means,
retrieving the materials, and using them as raw materials to make new products
Degradable - Resources that break down over shorter amts of time & include
biodegradable waste that originates from plants/animals
Slowly Degradable - Resources that break down over long periods of time
Non-degradable - Resources that virtually never break down & have indefinite life
spans
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Biodiversity - # & variety of species living in area
Public Land - any areas controlled by gov (in city, county, state, federal), funded by
taxpayers
Conservationalists - lobby to preserve/maintain land & natural resources so that
they may be cont to be used by humans
Preservationists - lobby to preserve lands & resources so they can't be used by
humans
Theory - explanation that has been tested & supported by wide variety of
observations & that new info in unlikely to discredit
Data - points that are measurable = quantitative or observations w/o numbers =
qualitative
Experiment - organic way of testing hypotheses
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