AP Environmental Science Vocabulary Practice

Using energy but using it better

• Energy Efficiency

• Kinetic Energy

• Renewable Energy

• Non-Renewable Energy

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

The product is tropospheric ozone

• VOCS

• Secondary Pollutants

• Stratosphere

• Photochemical Smog

Comes from agricultural fields and parking lots

• Agricultural runoff

• Fertilizers

• Point-Source Pollution

• Non-Point Source Pollution

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

When energy changes forms some of it is lost usually as heat

• CERCLA

• The Second Law of Thermodynamics

• Law of conservation of energy

• Law of conservation of mass

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

Meeting to stop production of CFC's

• Niche

• Endangered Species Act

• Kyoto Treaty

• The Montreal Protocol

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Meeting to lower the release of carbon dioxide

• Kyoto Treaty

• Carbon Conservation

• RCRA

• CAFE

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Where fresh water meets saltwater

• Littoral Zone

• Saltwater Intrusion

• Estuary

• Oligotrophic Lakes

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The way diseases transfer from one organism to another

• Bacteria

• Pathogen

• Vector

• Parasite

Trash from homes and businesses

• Bituminous

• E-Waste

• Municipal Solid Waste

• Recyle

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The impact a person in a certain country makes on the environment

• Malnutrition

• Ecosystem Services

• Energy Conservation

• Ecological Footprint

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4