APES Study guide

 

First Law of Thermodynamics

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Kinetic energy

Potential energy

ENSO: El Nino Southern Oscillation, see-sawing of air pressure over the S. Pacific

Nitrogen cycle and how man effects them

Nitrogen fixing

Ammonification

Nitrification

Assimilation

Denitrification

Phosphorus Cycle and how man effects them

Carbon Cycle and how man effects them

Photosynthesis

Aerobic respiration

Biotic/abiotic

Producer/Autotroph

Heterotrophy

Know tropic levels

10% rule

Primary succession

Secondary succession

Cogeneration

Commensalism

Mutualism

Parasitism

Biome know all the types and locations.

Carrying capacity

R strategist

K strategist

Positive feedback

Negative feedback

Doubling time: rule of 70

Replacement level fertility

Total fertility rate

World Population is: 6 1/2 billion

US Population

All parts of demographics

Preindustrial stage

Transitional stage

Industrial stage

Postindustrial stage

Age structure diagrams

Percent water on earth by type

Salinazation of soil

Point vs non point sources

BOD

Eutrophication

Hypoxia

Keystone species

Indicator species

Major insecticide groups and examples

Pesticide pros

Pesticide cons

Garret Hardin & The Tragedy of the Commons

Eutrophication

Transpiration

Biotic potential

Environmental resistant

Gross National Product

Disinfecting wastewater Ways.

Know all parts and function of wastewater treatment

Fecal coliform

Limiting factors examples

Br-Dr

10

Per capita

Factors effecting world hunger

Factors that determine seasons

Soil types and horizons and soils at different biomes

Green revolution

Wetlands funtion

Mitigation

Human usage of water

Dam and their effect on the environment and Locations of some of the world’s largest dams

Floodplains and levee

Turbidity

Acidity and pH scale

Hardness test

Dissolved oxygen

Salinity

In order know the percentages of the Earth’ crust

Know all plate boundaries

Bioaccumulations

Biomagnifications

Species Richness

Oxygen sag

H⁼

Biological controls for pest management

Pesticide treadmill

DDT

Clean Water Act

Pond zones

Aquifer

Recharge zone

Runoff