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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Environmental Science
Omnivore
Efficiency
Pie graph
2. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Dispersal
Adaptations
Predation
Threatened species
3. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Estuary
Nonrecyclable
Mutualism
4. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Poaching
Consumer
Omnivore
Independent variable
5. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Extinction
Environmental issue
Experimental error
6. The number of different species in an area
Parasitism
Poaching
Biodiversity
Mass extinctions
7. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Diet
Estuary
Bar graph
Renewable resource
8. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Green revolution
Threatened species
Sustainability
Pollution
9. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Mass extinctions
Carnivore
Risk assessment
10. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Symbiosis
Carnivore
Industrial Revolution
Sustainability
11. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Hunters and Gatherers
Poaching
Diet
Species
12. Mass destruction of most species
Cost benefit analysis
Data table
Predator
Mass extinctions
13. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Biodiversity
Natural resource
Host
Ecology
14. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Primary succession
Global warming
Agriculture
Nonrecyclable
15. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Temperature
Nonrenewable resource
Extinction
Biodegradable
16. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Supply and demand
Emigration
Symbiosis
17. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Immigration
Subsistence farmers
Consumer
18. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Agriculture Revolution
Estuary
Sustainability
human error
19. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Biotic factor
Food web
Risk assessment
Environmental Science
20. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Natural Resource
Precipitation
Estuary
Water cycle
21. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Niche
Water cycle
Depleted
Diet
22. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Commensalism
Experimental Groups
Climate
Scavenger
23. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Succession
Control Group
Supply and demand
Water cycle
24. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Habitat
Mass extinctions
Mutualism
25. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Fossil fuel
Nonrenewable resource
Endangered species
Secondary succession
26. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Column Graph
Sustainability
Secondary succession
Keystone species
27. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Agriculture
Host
Niche
Habitat
28. Moving into a population
Renewable resources
Immigration
Dependent variable
Carrying capacity
29. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Bar graph
Agriculture Revolution
Parasite
30. An organism that can make it's own food
Mass extinctions
Natural Resource
Producer
Fossil fuel
31. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Ecosystem
Symbiosis
Growth rate
Abiotic factor
32. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Biotic factor
Developed countries
Depleted
33. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Niche
Poaching
Depleted
Industrial Revolution
34. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Risk assessment
Immigration
Biodiversity
Green revolution
35. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Depleted
Scatter graph
Grains
Condensation
36. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Symbiosis
Yield
Biodiversity
Food web
37. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Renewable resources
Environmental Science
Temperature
Developed countries
38. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Agriculture Revolution
Developed countries
Tragedy of the commons
Experimental error
39. A chart with bars
Parasitism
Omnivore
Host
Bar graph
40. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Omnivore
Natural resource
Food web
Competition
41. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Biotic factor
Poaching
Mutualism
42. Mistake in following procedure
Tragedy of the commons
human error
Predator
Community
43. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Renewable resource
Keystone species
Depleted
44. Organism that is killed
Column Graph
Estuary
Environmental issue
Prey
45. All the different populations that live together in an area
Control Group
Renewable resource
Industrial Revolution
Community
46. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Agriculture Revolution
Dependent variable
Bar graph
47. Resources supplied by nature
Ecological footprint
Diet
Natural Resource
Food chain
48. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Yield
Agriculture Revolution
Experimental Groups
Scavenger
49. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Natural selection
Ecology
Nonrecyclable
Commensalism
50. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Supply and demand
Abiotic factor
Estuary
Independent variable