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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Fossil fuel
Depleted
Developed countries
Selective cutting
2. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Famine
Developed countries
Omnivore
Precipitation
3. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Immigration
Greenhouse effect
Succession
Geothermal energy
4. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Adaptations
Nitrogen fixation
Dependent variable
5. Resources supplied by nature
Limiting factor
Industrial Revolution
human error
Natural Resource
6. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Biodegradable
Host
human error
Omnivore
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Risk assessment
Precipitation
Fossil fuel
Primary succession
8. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Natural resource
Biome
Parasite
9. All the members of one species in a particular area
Habitat
Herbivore
Population
Climate
10. The variable that you manipulate
Natural resource
Fossil fuel
Independent variable
Carrying capacity
11. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Green revolution
Primary succession
Major food nutrients
Keystone species
12. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Non-biodegradable
Mutualism
Experimental Groups
Predation
13. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Niche
Tragedy of the commons
Parasitism
14. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Selective cutting
Experimental error
Column Graph
Producer
15. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Data table
Threatened species
Habitat
16. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Developing countries
human error
Geothermal energy
17. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Tragedy of the commons
Food chain
Non-biodegradable
Agriculture
18. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Growth rate
Pollution
Nitrogen fixation
Tragedy of the commons
19. Flaw in design of procedure
Evaporation
Geothermal energy
Column Graph
Experimental error
20. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Biodegradable
Geothermal energy
Non-biodegradable
Decomposer
21. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nonrenewable resource
Keystone species
Host
22. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Agriculture Revolution
Evaporation
Cost benefit analysis
Sustainability
23. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Biome
Carnivore
Renewable resources
Control Group
24. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Environmental Science
Nonrecyclable
Industrial Revolution
Climate
25. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Environmental issue
Risk assessment
Ecosystem
Niche
26. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Parasite
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Experimental Groups
Line graph
27. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Pioneer species
Supply and demand
Carrying capacity
Abiotic factor
28. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Scatter graph
Prey
Ecological footprint
Nonrenewable resource
29. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Species
Geothermal energy
Independent variable
30. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Biodiversity
Biodegradable
Decomposer
31. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Major food nutrients
Niche
Food web
Control Group
32. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Natural resource
Food chain
Dispersal
Agriculture Revolution
33. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Keystone species
Line graph
Environmental issue
Pie graph
34. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Food chain
Environmental issue
Recyclable
Developing countries
35. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Biome
Ecological footprint
Experimental error
36. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Industrial Revolution
Energy conservation
Estuary
Natural selection
37. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Tragedy of the commons
Recyclable
Commensalism
Famine
38. The practice of reducing energy use
Adaptations
Greenhouse effect
Energy conservation
Omnivore
39. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Biodiversity
Commensalism
Competition
Carnivore
40. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Groundwater
Data table
Scatter graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
41. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Renewable resource
Hunters and Gatherers
Environmental Science
Yield
42. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Experimental error
Mutualism
Environmental Science
43. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Biome
Secondary succession
Food chain
Control Group
44. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Habitat
Commensalism
Herbivore
Nonrecyclable
45. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biodiversity
Biome
Producer
Commensalism
46. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Natural resource
Mass extinctions
Pollution
Host
47. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Agriculture Revolution
Natural resource
Renewable resources
48. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Consumer
Scatter graph
Succession
Hunters and Gatherers
49. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Geothermal energy
Parasite
Experimental Groups
Endangered species
50. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Pioneer species
Growth rate
Nitrogen fixation
Global warming