Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2016 Edition by Princeton Review

Cracking the AP Environmental Science Exam, 2016 Edition by Princeton Review

Author:Princeton Review [Review, The Princeton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8041-2648-9
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-09-01T00:00:00+00:00


KEY TERMS

Here are your key terms for Chapter 7. Know what you should do with them? No, don’t skip them! Learn them!

Resources

resource

conservation

preservation

natural resources

ecosystem capital

renewable resources

nonrenewable resources

consumption

production

“The Tragedy of the Commons”

Agriculture

subsistence agriculture

slash and burn agriculture

Dust Bowl

Green Revolution

FIFRA

salinization

integrated pest management

genetically modified organism

monoculture

photosynthate

plantation farming

contour plowing

terracing

no-till methods

crop rotation

inter cropping

strip cropping

overgrazing

Forestry

deforestation

old growth forest

second growth forest

plantations

silviculture

clear-cutting

selective cutting

uneven-aged management

shelter-wood cutting

greenbelts

agroforestry

surface, crown, ground fires

Oceans

fishery

capture fisheries

by-catch

driftnets

long lining

bottom trawling

aquaculture

fish farming

cnidarians

zooxanthellae

coral bleaching

Mining

ore

metallic and nonmetallic minerals

mineral deposit

gangue

tailings

strip mining

overburden

mountaintop removal

shaft mining

restoration

Economics

cost-benefit analysis

marginal costs and benefits

externalities



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