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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Agriculture
Groundwater
Keystone species
2. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Competition
Commensalism
Species
3. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Geothermal energy
Tragedy of the commons
Herbivore
Climate
4. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Niche
Herbivore
Bar graph
5. The number of different species in a given area
Control Group
Nonrenewable resource
Cost benefit analysis
Biodiversity
6. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Consumer
Global warming
Keystone species
Decomposer
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
human error
Primary succession
Climate
Pollution
8. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Niche
Producer
Biodegradable
Depleted
9. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Famine
Carnivore
Nonrenewable resource
Risk assessment
10. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Agriculture
Energy conservation
Temperature
Data table
11. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Recyclable
Agriculture Revolution
Secondary succession
Hunters and Gatherers
12. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Experimental Groups
Developing countries
Population
Energy conservation
13. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Global warming
Green revolution
Biodegradable
Natural selection
14. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Biodegradable
Natural Resource
Symbiosis
15. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Primary succession
Groundwater
Geothermal energy
Water cycle
16. The largest population that an area can support
Water cycle
Biodiversity
Agriculture Revolution
Carrying capacity
17. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Ecosystem
Experimental error
Natural selection
Experimental Groups
18. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Scatter graph
Growth rate
Succession
Selective cutting
19. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Climate
Temperature
Ecology
Scavenger
20. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Food web
Fossil fuel
Renewable resources
21. Organism that does the killing
Mass extinctions
Habitat
Risk assessment
Predator
22. All the members of one species in a particular area
Consumer
Poaching
Population
Climate
23. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Line graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Estuary
Niche
24. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Natural Resource
Food chain
Succession
Biodiversity
25. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Depleted
Fossil fuel
Nonrenewable resource
Global warming
26. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Environmental Science
Nonrecyclable
Developed countries
Climate
27. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Column Graph
Major food nutrients
Geothermal energy
Ecosystem
28. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Climate
Ecosystem
Data table
29. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Poaching
Nitrogen fixation
Hunters and Gatherers
Keystone species
30. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Succession
Data table
Limiting factor
Worlds 5 Main Foods
31. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Niche
Food web
Biodegradable
Sustainability
32. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Recyclable
Food web
Experimental Groups
33. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Extinction
Consumer
Omnivore
Precipitation
34. A living part of an organism's habitat
Global warming
Natural resource
Biotic factor
Condensation
35. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Nitrogen fixation
Agriculture Revolution
Depleted
Nonrenewable resource
36. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Consumer
Pie graph
Environmental Science
Prey
37. Anything that harms an organism
Selective cutting
Mass extinctions
Pollution
Omnivore
38. A chart with bars
Dispersal
Global warming
Competition
Bar graph
39. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Immigration
Groundwater
Carnivore
Global warming
40. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Dependent variable
Experimental Groups
Succession
Consumer
41. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Poaching
Famine
Experimental Groups
Diet
42. The number of different species in an area
Host
Biodiversity
Prey
Natural resource
43. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Industrial Revolution
Parasitism
Scavenger
Endangered species
44. The variable that you manipulate
Decomposer
Biodiversity
Independent variable
Population
45. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Bar graph
Niche
Tragedy of the commons
46. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Green revolution
Renewable resource
Bar graph
Nonrecyclable
47. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Recyclable
Pollution
Non-biodegradable
Tragedy of the commons
48. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Control Group
Evaporation
Precipitation
Hunters and Gatherers
49. Mass destruction of most species
Selective cutting
Mass extinctions
Community
Primary succession
50. Moving into a population
Immigration
Experimental error
Scavenger
Tragedy of the commons