AP Environmental Science --> Unit 5 Vocabulary

Amend

Process of adding any material to soil to improve it (Ex: enhancing water retention, aeration, or nutrient availability.)

Aquaculture

the controlled farming of aquatic organisms like fish, shellfish, and plants to meet food and product demand. (Bad for Environment)

Artificial Selection

Process where humans deliberately choose and breed organisms with desirable traits.

Biomagnification

Process by which certain substances, like pollutants and heavy metals, become more concentrated in organisms at successive trophic levels within a food chain.