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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Decomposer
Adaptations
Condensation
Extinction
2. Leaving a population
Emigration
Herbivore
Immigration
Independent variable
3. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Commensalism
Renewable resource
Symbiosis
Natural selection
4. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Diet
Control Group
5. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Commensalism
Efficiency
Global warming
Supply and demand
6. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Limiting factor
Greenhouse effect
Supply and demand
7. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Population
Estuary
Non-biodegradable
Ecology
8. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Predation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Natural resource
9. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Temperature
Immigration
Niche
Poaching
10. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Parasitism
Greenhouse effect
Extinction
Renewable resource
11. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Limiting factor
Ecosystem
Predator
12. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Subsistence farmers
Nonrecyclable
Hunters and Gatherers
Carnivore
13. A relationship in which both species benefit
Biodegradable
Mutualism
Nonrecyclable
Hunters and Gatherers
14. All the members of one species in a particular area
Global warming
Industrial Revolution
Control Group
Population
15. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Agriculture Revolution
Primary succession
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Developed countries
16. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Renewable resource
Consumer
Recyclable
Malnutrition
17. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Biodiversity
Developing countries
Green revolution
Competition
18. Organism that does the killing
Extinction
Predator
Commensalism
Industrial Revolution
19. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Scatter graph
Energy conservation
Sustainability
Supply and demand
20. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Pollution
Industrial Revolution
Habitat
Limiting factor
21. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Habitat
Pie graph
Dispersal
Emigration
22. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Environmental issue
Precipitation
Emigration
23. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Condensation
Predator
Producer
Famine
24. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Immigration
Scavenger
Developing countries
Worlds 5 Main Foods
25. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Competition
Depleted
Diet
Parasitism
26. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Estuary
Nonrecyclable
Line graph
Renewable resources
27. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Biodegradable
Independent variable
Predation
28. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Estuary
Precipitation
Commensalism
Food web
29. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Green revolution
Experimental Groups
Carrying capacity
Natural selection
30. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Water cycle
Hunters and Gatherers
Depleted
31. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Greenhouse effect
Recyclable
Sustainability
Worlds 5 Main Foods
32. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
human error
Keystone species
Ecology
Line graph
33. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Ecosystem
Pioneer species
Developing countries
Developed countries
34. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Risk assessment
Yield
Predation
Dependent variable
35. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Sustainability
Natural selection
Immigration
36. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Secondary succession
Risk assessment
Biodegradable
Threatened species
37. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Parasite
Temperature
Scavenger
Independent variable
38. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Nonrenewable resource
Scatter graph
Recyclable
Depleted
39. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Yield
Ecosystem
Precipitation
40. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Nonrenewable resource
Independent variable
Growth rate
41. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Mutualism
Hunters and Gatherers
Scavenger
Adaptations
42. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Biodegradable
Pollution
Diet
Commensalism
43. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Climate
Major food nutrients
Scatter graph
44. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Evaporation
Dispersal
Precipitation
Developed countries
45. The number of different species in an area
Threatened species
Mass extinctions
Bar graph
Biodiversity
46. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Experimental Groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Renewable resource
47. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Industrial Revolution
Species
Water cycle
Omnivore
48. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Carnivore
Subsistence farmers
Predator
49. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Threatened species
Nonrenewable resource
Experimental Groups
50. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Succession
Pie graph
Adaptations
Experimental Groups