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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Ecosystem
Yield
Depleted
Renewable resource
2. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Non-biodegradable
Green revolution
Biome
3. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Grains
Symbiosis
Environmental issue
Green revolution
4. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Nonrecyclable
Developed countries
Malnutrition
5. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Abiotic factor
Energy conservation
Secondary succession
Parasite
6. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Famine
Keystone species
Extinction
Temperature
7. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Population
Experimental error
Agriculture
8. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Cost benefit analysis
Niche
Column Graph
Host
9. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Food web
Agriculture Revolution
Mass extinctions
Succession
10. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Herbivore
Threatened species
Community
11. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Nonrecyclable
Parasite
Global warming
Diet
12. A living part of an organism's habitat
Selective cutting
Dispersal
Biotic factor
Decomposer
13. Heat from the Earth's interior
Estuary
Natural Resource
Geothermal energy
Nonrecyclable
14. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Cost benefit analysis
Emigration
Host
15. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Pie graph
Global warming
Decomposer
Agriculture
16. The variable that you manipulate
Biodegradable
Pollution
Biome
Independent variable
17. Moving into a population
Niche
Experimental Groups
Endangered species
Immigration
18. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Carnivore
Primary succession
Sustainability
Biodegradable
19. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Predation
Natural resource
Omnivore
Parasitism
20. Mistake in following procedure
Predator
Scatter graph
human error
Ecology
21. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Scavenger
Consumer
Abiotic factor
Habitat
22. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Natural selection
Nonrenewable resource
Developing countries
23. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Abiotic factor
Malnutrition
Efficiency
Dispersal
24. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Scatter graph
Keystone species
Commensalism
Emigration
25. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Supply and demand
Poaching
Scatter graph
Developed countries
26. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Selective cutting
Primary succession
Line graph
Limiting factor
27. Anything that harms an organism
Developed countries
Carrying capacity
Pollution
Parasitism
28. Leaving a population
Emigration
Non-biodegradable
Primary succession
Famine
29. A consumer that eats only plants
Niche
Precipitation
Herbivore
Renewable resources
30. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Cost benefit analysis
Keystone species
Column Graph
Precipitation
31. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Food chain
Hunters and Gatherers
Groundwater
Ecosystem
32. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Biotic factor
Population
Nonrecyclable
Environmental Science
33. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Renewable resources
Endangered species
Primary succession
Environmental Science
34. All the members of one species in a particular area
Dependent variable
Biodiversity
Population
Prey
35. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Subsistence farmers
Poaching
Fossil fuel
36. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Limiting factor
Major food nutrients
Risk assessment
Scatter graph
37. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Agriculture
Column Graph
Green revolution
38. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Omnivore
Ecology
Extinction
Predator
39. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Adaptations
Habitat
Non-biodegradable
Endangered species
40. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Geothermal energy
Depleted
Limiting factor
Control Group
41. An organism that can make it's own food
Threatened species
Producer
Extinction
Fossil fuel
42. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Nonrecyclable
Ecological footprint
Natural selection
43. A chart with bars
Diet
Temperature
Bar graph
Nonrecyclable
44. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Extinction
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Line graph
Grains
45. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Subsistence farmers
Threatened species
Malnutrition
Decomposer
46. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Industrial Revolution
Community
Herbivore
Ecology
47. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Natural resource
Population
Greenhouse effect
Emigration
48. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Precipitation
Scatter graph
Temperature
Pie graph
49. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Estuary
Abiotic factor
Predation
Natural Resource
50. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Biodegradable
Recyclable
Evaporation
Pioneer species