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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Decomposer
Hunters and Gatherers
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental Science
2. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Renewable resource
Ecosystem
Carnivore
Famine
3. The practice of reducing energy use
Biodiversity
Energy conservation
Evaporation
Biotic factor
4. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Grains
Major food nutrients
Nitrogen fixation
Biotic factor
5. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Renewable resource
Host
Predation
Secondary succession
6. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Succession
Niche
Condensation
Natural Resource
7. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Carnivore
Parasite
Condensation
Control Group
8. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Cost benefit analysis
Ecology
Climate
Food web
9. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Risk assessment
Major food nutrients
Decomposer
Secondary succession
10. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Developing countries
Dispersal
Scatter graph
11. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Greenhouse effect
Recyclable
Ecology
Threatened species
12. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Competition
Natural resource
Global warming
13. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Scavenger
Parasitism
Temperature
Yield
14. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Host
Biodegradable
Developing countries
Environmental Science
15. Anything that harms an organism
Biodiversity
Carrying capacity
Pollution
Water cycle
16. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Depleted
Commensalism
Agriculture
17. All the different populations that live together in an area
Decomposer
Community
Producer
Subsistence farmers
18. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Famine
Experimental Groups
Environmental Science
Nonrenewable resource
19. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Fossil fuel
Efficiency
Abiotic factor
20. A chart with bars
Column Graph
Geothermal energy
Ecology
Bar graph
21. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Food chain
Prey
22. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Selective cutting
Major food nutrients
Evaporation
23. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Community
Precipitation
Renewable resource
24. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Renewable resource
Ecosystem
Immigration
Tragedy of the commons
25. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Estuary
Food chain
Abiotic factor
Grains
26. The variable that you manipulate
Data table
Immigration
Independent variable
Food chain
27. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Omnivore
Ecological footprint
Biome
Renewable resources
28. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Secondary succession
Abiotic factor
Diet
Omnivore
29. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Supply and demand
human error
Subsistence farmers
30. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Dispersal
Population
Poaching
Scatter graph
31. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Niche
Pioneer species
Host
Water cycle
32. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Data table
Precipitation
Developed countries
Dispersal
33. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Parasitism
Host
Cost benefit analysis
Mass extinctions
34. Organism that is killed
Subsistence farmers
Water cycle
Prey
Nonrecyclable
35. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Renewable resource
Omnivore
Experimental Groups
Commensalism
36. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Efficiency
Nonrecyclable
Ecological footprint
Environmental Science
37. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Cost benefit analysis
Fossil fuel
Sustainability
Threatened species
38. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Primary succession
Fossil fuel
Endangered species
Ecology
39. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Risk assessment
Decomposer
Biome
Energy conservation
40. Something that breaks down into soil
Commensalism
Biodegradable
Diet
Adaptations
41. Moving into a population
Immigration
Biodiversity
Data table
Nonrenewable resource
42. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Independent variable
Consumer
Community
Limiting factor
43. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Fossil fuel
Risk assessment
Dependent variable
Natural resource
44. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Tragedy of the commons
Climate
Selective cutting
45. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Consumer
Hunters and Gatherers
Nonrenewable resource
Parasitism
46. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Predation
Parasite
Grains
Endangered species
47. A relationship in which both species benefit
Adaptations
Biodiversity
Agriculture Revolution
Mutualism
48. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Mutualism
Scatter graph
Developing countries
Grains
49. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Hunters and Gatherers
Tragedy of the commons
Pioneer species
Depleted
50. Resources supplied by nature
Host
Natural Resource
Parasitism
Prey