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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Parasite
Environmental Science
Poaching
2. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Diet
Column Graph
Nonrenewable resource
Decomposer
3. The number of different species in a given area
human error
Pie graph
Biodiversity
Biodegradable
4. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Condensation
Scavenger
Natural resource
5. A consumer that eats only animals
Commensalism
Ecological footprint
Dependent variable
Carnivore
6. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Fossil fuel
Agriculture
Selective cutting
7. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Herbivore
Subsistence farmers
Emigration
8. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Nonrecyclable
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
Recyclable
9. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Estuary
Condensation
Diet
Depleted
10. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Global warming
Natural selection
Risk assessment
11. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural resource
Biotic factor
Natural selection
Habitat
12. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Green revolution
Food web
Omnivore
Data table
13. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Cost benefit analysis
Environmental Science
Community
Climate
14. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Ecological footprint
Emigration
Agriculture
15. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Carnivore
Independent variable
Limiting factor
16. The rate of which a plant grows at
Bar graph
Growth rate
Natural Resource
Succession
17. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Nonrecyclable
Yield
Depleted
Omnivore
18. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Control Group
Renewable resource
Environmental Science
Threatened species
19. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Parasitism
Column Graph
Habitat
Nonrecyclable
20. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Column Graph
Bar graph
Geothermal energy
21. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Global warming
Ecosystem
Mutualism
Developing countries
22. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Food web
Bar graph
Habitat
23. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Prey
Industrial Revolution
Parasitism
Major food nutrients
24. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Fossil fuel
Pollution
Biotic factor
25. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Estuary
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Global warming
Climate
26. A consumer that eats only plants
Host
Scavenger
Herbivore
Ecological footprint
27. A chart with bars
Growth rate
Decomposer
Greenhouse effect
Bar graph
28. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Ecology
Renewable resource
Estuary
29. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Natural selection
Control Group
Depleted
Biome
30. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Fossil fuel
Grains
Selective cutting
Primary succession
31. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
human error
Column Graph
Experimental error
32. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Parasite
Environmental issue
Water cycle
Energy conservation
33. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Biome
Line graph
Community
Cost benefit analysis
34. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Threatened species
Limiting factor
Pollution
35. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Data table
Renewable resources
Population
Natural resource
36. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Threatened species
Biome
Hunters and Gatherers
Parasite
37. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Agriculture Revolution
Emigration
Pioneer species
38. The practice of reducing energy use
Biotic factor
Energy conservation
Growth rate
Malnutrition
39. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Yield
Succession
Limiting factor
Community
40. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Non-biodegradable
Biodiversity
Supply and demand
Keystone species
41. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Developing countries
Malnutrition
Pie graph
Succession
42. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Non-biodegradable
Global warming
Developed countries
Parasitism
43. The amount of food production in a given area
Experimental error
Estuary
Depleted
Yield
44. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Evaporation
Producer
Nitrogen fixation
Industrial Revolution
45. Flaw in design of procedure
Bar graph
Scavenger
Experimental error
Independent variable
46. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Nonrecyclable
Risk assessment
Biome
47. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Climate
Biodegradable
Scavenger
Dependent variable
48. Moving into a population
Niche
Condensation
Selective cutting
Immigration
49. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Groundwater
Experimental Groups
Energy conservation
Developing countries
50. Organism that is killed
Agriculture Revolution
Growth rate
Prey
Succession