AP Environmental Science Semester 1 Review

The soil horizon with the most nutrients is the ____ horizon.

What is the meaning of "niche" in ecology?

The hydrosphere includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Weathering of carbon-containing minerals leads to eventual _______ of C from the atmosphere

What are the only human activities permitted in a Wilderness Area?

The process of the lithosphere taking up water from surface runoff is called:

Which of the following is a generalized source of pollution?

Which of the following practices is consistent with the Endangered Species Act?

Which aspect of agriculture involves having single farms focus on a single product?

Who do the Broncos play this Sunday?

Are baby fennec foxes actually a pokemon?

The two ways that the Tragedy of the Commons works are:

The earth's population has increased dramatically in the past 100 years, mostly due to:

The population of Japan is steadily declining. Which is NOT a reason for this decline?

Infrastructure and urban development cause which of these to happen in soils?

Which of the following is at the lowest trophic level?

Which of the following about a climax community is FALSE?

The process of ammonification (decomposing waste organic nitrogen to useful NH₃) is done by:

Species that use the same resources will likely lead one to die out. This is called:

Which of the following extinctions was caused by a catastrophic space impact?

The second law of thermodynamics implies that:

What percent of energy is lost as we move up each trophic level in a food web?

Which of these is NOT a recent consequence of the widespread use of GMOs?

The ocean removes carbon from the atmosphere by:

The two most important factors for determining climate are:

Which band is responsible for this iconic cover image?

Frogs and other amphibians are good indicator species' because:

The development of dangerous strains of disease organisms is mostly due to:

Sunlight is known as a:

Raising livestock requires _____ energy as/than growing crops.