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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Independent variable
Column Graph
Major food nutrients
Extinction
2. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Species
Supply and demand
Major food nutrients
3. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Nonrecyclable
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural resource
Dispersal
4. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Emigration
Niche
Biotic factor
5. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Supply and demand
Climate
Mutualism
Threatened species
6. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Subsistence farmers
Limiting factor
Habitat
7. A chart with bars
Independent variable
Bar graph
Diet
Geothermal energy
8. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Global warming
Dispersal
Renewable resources
Host
9. Heat from the Earth's interior
Nitrogen fixation
Geothermal energy
Control Group
Omnivore
10. Anything that harms an organism
Nonrenewable resource
Data table
Tragedy of the commons
Pollution
11. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Limiting factor
Commensalism
Competition
12. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Mass extinctions
Line graph
Column Graph
Major food nutrients
13. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Cost benefit analysis
Emigration
Column Graph
Agriculture
14. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Population
Non-biodegradable
Succession
15. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Prey
Mutualism
Natural resource
16. Leaving a population
Producer
Natural Resource
Emigration
Temperature
17. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Producer
Environmental Science
Pioneer species
Famine
18. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Tragedy of the commons
Major food nutrients
Producer
Data table
19. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Selective cutting
Commensalism
Nonrenewable resource
Line graph
20. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Biodiversity
Biodegradable
Experimental error
Host
21. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Carnivore
Developing countries
Cost benefit analysis
Biotic factor
22. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Immigration
Biome
Climate
Secondary succession
23. Moving into a population
Pioneer species
Scavenger
Immigration
Ecology
24. All the members of one species in a particular area
Mutualism
Condensation
Ecology
Population
25. Organism that is killed
Prey
Habitat
Nonrecyclable
Water cycle
26. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Endangered species
Energy conservation
Emigration
27. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Data table
Adaptations
Sustainability
28. All the different populations that live together in an area
Pie graph
Community
Scatter graph
Depleted
29. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Renewable resources
Line graph
Grains
Supply and demand
30. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Line graph
Famine
Food chain
Carrying capacity
31. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Diet
Endangered species
Ecology
Major food nutrients
32. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Niche
Yield
Community
Precipitation
33. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Endangered species
Niche
Growth rate
Sustainability
34. The number of different species in a given area
Biodegradable
Natural Resource
Biodiversity
Producer
35. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Population
Nonrenewable resource
Malnutrition
Supply and demand
36. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Population
Natural Resource
Scatter graph
37. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Biodegradable
Natural resource
Line graph
Groundwater
38. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Parasitism
Primary succession
Green revolution
human error
39. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Evaporation
Ecology
Threatened species
Ecological footprint
40. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Renewable resources
Natural resource
Risk assessment
Keystone species
41. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Carnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Parasitism
Ecology
42. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Predation
Major food nutrients
Biodegradable
Energy conservation
43. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Hunters and Gatherers
Experimental error
Worlds 5 Main Foods
44. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Evaporation
Non-biodegradable
Tragedy of the commons
Developing countries
45. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Pioneer species
Groundwater
Depleted
46. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Nonrenewable resource
Succession
Pie graph
Greenhouse effect
47. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Risk assessment
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural selection
Bar graph
48. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Grains
Environmental issue
Experimental error
49. Mistake in following procedure
Data table
Natural selection
human error
Environmental issue
50. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Community
Water cycle
Carnivore
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