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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Endangered species
Biotic factor
Developed countries
2. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Limiting factor
Nonrecyclable
Agriculture Revolution
Endangered species
3. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Diet
Species
Natural selection
Temperature
4. Moving into a population
Bar graph
Supply and demand
Immigration
Biodiversity
5. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Estuary
Symbiosis
Sustainability
Precipitation
6. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Green revolution
Estuary
Decomposer
Environmental issue
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Temperature
Secondary succession
Biodegradable
Groundwater
8. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Recyclable
Developed countries
Parasitism
Dependent variable
9. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Symbiosis
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodegradable
Commensalism
10. A chart with bars
Ecosystem
Energy conservation
Bar graph
Environmental issue
11. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Risk assessment
Niche
Biome
12. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Carrying capacity
Keystone species
Nonrecyclable
Parasite
13. The variable that you manipulate
Ecological footprint
Immigration
Predation
Independent variable
14. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Agriculture
human error
Ecological footprint
15. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Secondary succession
Bar graph
Fossil fuel
16. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Major food nutrients
Tragedy of the commons
Data table
Herbivore
17. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Famine
Malnutrition
Niche
Threatened species
18. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Natural Resource
Scatter graph
Water cycle
Keystone species
19. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Renewable resource
Developed countries
Environmental Science
Emigration
20. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Symbiosis
Temperature
Agriculture
21. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Yield
Data table
Renewable resources
Column Graph
22. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Green revolution
Temperature
Ecological footprint
Ecology
23. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Extinction
Sustainability
Succession
Energy conservation
24. Leaving a population
Scavenger
Adaptations
Emigration
Parasite
25. Mistake in following procedure
Renewable resources
Host
Pioneer species
human error
26. Something that breaks down into soil
Precipitation
Climate
Biodegradable
Pioneer species
27. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Omnivore
Food web
Pioneer species
28. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Ecosystem
Renewable resources
Limiting factor
Predator
29. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Risk assessment
Column Graph
Environmental issue
30. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Niche
Keystone species
Growth rate
Recyclable
31. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Green revolution
Line graph
Developed countries
32. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Natural selection
Column Graph
Supply and demand
Fossil fuel
33. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Predation
Pioneer species
Herbivore
34. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Agriculture Revolution
Host
Developed countries
Ecology
35. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Malnutrition
Pie graph
Greenhouse effect
Consumer
36. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Pie graph
Global warming
Poaching
Energy conservation
37. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Pioneer species
Biodegradable
Pie graph
38. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Pollution
Selective cutting
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodegradable
39. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Population
Estuary
Pie graph
Non-biodegradable
40. The first species to populate the area
Selective cutting
Parasitism
Pioneer species
Natural resource
41. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Endangered species
Malnutrition
Biodiversity
Column Graph
42. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Developing countries
Greenhouse effect
43. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Diet
Malnutrition
Experimental Groups
Mutualism
44. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Prey
Food web
Succession
Pollution
45. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Omnivore
Climate
Population
Agriculture
46. Resources supplied by nature
Yield
Subsistence farmers
Natural Resource
Bar graph
47. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Emigration
Evaporation
Agriculture Revolution
Diet
48. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Independent variable
Parasite
Herbivore
Extinction
49. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Environmental issue
Nonrenewable resource
Food web
50. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Nonrenewable resource
Predation
Scavenger
Mass extinctions