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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Control Group
Ecosystem
Recyclable
Estuary
2. The largest population that an area can support
Major food nutrients
Consumer
Tragedy of the commons
Carrying capacity
3. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Food web
Threatened species
Famine
Risk assessment
4. An organism that can make it's own food
Scavenger
Producer
Depleted
Experimental error
5. The variable that you manipulate
Condensation
Nitrogen fixation
Yield
Independent variable
6. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Geothermal energy
Supply and demand
Renewable resources
Groundwater
7. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Endangered species
Fossil fuel
Growth rate
Natural resource
8. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Ecosystem
Endangered species
Environmental issue
Efficiency
9. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Nonrenewable resource
Agriculture Revolution
Parasite
Predation
10. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Precipitation
Endangered species
Commensalism
Food web
11. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Parasite
Non-biodegradable
Biodiversity
12. Anything that harms an organism
Mutualism
Sustainability
Pollution
Immigration
13. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Agriculture Revolution
Adaptations
Prey
14. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Community
Natural resource
Immigration
Water cycle
15. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Poaching
Nonrenewable resource
Selective cutting
Renewable resources
16. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Habitat
Food web
Nonrenewable resource
Tragedy of the commons
17. The number of different species in an area
Decomposer
Developed countries
Natural selection
Biodiversity
18. Organism that does the killing
Natural resource
Depleted
Commensalism
Predator
19. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Secondary succession
Major food nutrients
Pollution
20. A chart with bars
Abiotic factor
Bar graph
Niche
Greenhouse effect
21. Leaving a population
Data table
Competition
Estuary
Emigration
22. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Ecological footprint
Sustainability
Nonrecyclable
Host
23. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Natural Resource
Symbiosis
Renewable resource
Habitat
24. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Greenhouse effect
Supply and demand
Nonrenewable resource
Decomposer
25. The number of different species in a given area
Producer
Decomposer
Biodiversity
Ecological footprint
26. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Carnivore
Biotic factor
Parasitism
Ecological footprint
27. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Malnutrition
Nonrecyclable
Dispersal
Experimental Groups
28. Flaw in design of procedure
Decomposer
Experimental error
Grains
Geothermal energy
29. The effect of the IV
Non-biodegradable
Carnivore
Dependent variable
Competition
30. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Tragedy of the commons
Subsistence farmers
Threatened species
Environmental Science
31. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Agriculture Revolution
Control Group
Pioneer species
Greenhouse effect
32. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Environmental issue
Endangered species
Keystone species
Global warming
33. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Groundwater
Risk assessment
Bar graph
Ecology
34. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Competition
Endangered species
Scavenger
Symbiosis
35. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Population
Biotic factor
Agriculture
36. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Grains
Growth rate
37. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Host
Green revolution
Supply and demand
38. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Bar graph
Mass extinctions
Famine
Host
39. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Geothermal energy
Carrying capacity
Water cycle
40. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Limiting factor
Omnivore
Yield
Efficiency
41. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Predation
Biome
Immigration
42. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Geothermal energy
Predation
Dependent variable
Nonrenewable resource
43. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Mutualism
Renewable resources
Yield
Primary succession
44. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Green revolution
Omnivore
Climate
Threatened species
45. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Competition
Poaching
Industrial Revolution
Agriculture
46. Resources supplied by nature
Recyclable
Developing countries
Natural Resource
Pioneer species
47. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Parasitism
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
48. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Threatened species
Dependent variable
Non-biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
49. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Famine
Commensalism
Parasite
Developed countries
50. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Mass extinctions
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Herbivore
Experimental Groups