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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Bar graph
Nonrenewable resource
Decomposer
Parasitism
2. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Dispersal
Decomposer
Biome
3. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Column Graph
Climate
Temperature
Major food nutrients
4. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Natural selection
Data table
Population
Omnivore
5. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Commensalism
Niche
Parasitism
Natural Resource
6. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Biodiversity
Carrying capacity
Secondary succession
7. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Fossil fuel
Symbiosis
Nonrenewable resource
Threatened species
8. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Evaporation
Risk assessment
Carrying capacity
Producer
9. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Succession
Ecology
Food web
Symbiosis
10. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Scavenger
Efficiency
Carnivore
Groundwater
11. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Environmental Science
Prey
Selective cutting
Competition
12. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Niche
human error
Emigration
13. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Decomposer
Diet
Pollution
Developing countries
14. Something that breaks down into soil
Natural Resource
Greenhouse effect
Biodegradable
Pioneer species
15. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Diet
Producer
Commensalism
Ecology
16. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Developed countries
Grains
Climate
17. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Grains
Nonrecyclable
Ecology
Famine
18. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Experimental Groups
Temperature
Threatened species
Keystone species
19. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Niche
Species
Competition
Pioneer species
20. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Herbivore
Control Group
Non-biodegradable
human error
21. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Nonrenewable resource
Precipitation
Natural selection
22. Resources supplied by nature
Biotic factor
Scavenger
Poaching
Natural Resource
23. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Food chain
Agriculture
Adaptations
24. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Ecosystem
Immigration
Selective cutting
25. Moving into a population
Environmental Science
Biodiversity
Immigration
Data table
26. A relationship in which both species benefit
Consumer
Mutualism
Pioneer species
Predator
27. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Selective cutting
Geothermal energy
Evaporation
28. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Food web
Fossil fuel
Control Group
29. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Natural Resource
Greenhouse effect
Community
Selective cutting
30. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Data table
Producer
Cost benefit analysis
31. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Community
Biome
Threatened species
32. Mass destruction of most species
Nonrenewable resource
Dispersal
Mass extinctions
Renewable resource
33. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Host
Succession
Food chain
Evaporation
34. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Groundwater
Major food nutrients
Biome
Non-biodegradable
35. The effect of the IV
Experimental error
Efficiency
Biodiversity
Dependent variable
36. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Species
Extinction
Growth rate
Food chain
37. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Independent variable
Subsistence farmers
Hunters and Gatherers
38. A consumer that eats only plants
Poaching
Depleted
Herbivore
Selective cutting
39. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Developing countries
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Keystone species
Carrying capacity
40. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Independent variable
Renewable resource
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse effect
41. Leaving a population
Malnutrition
Green revolution
Emigration
Dependent variable
42. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Prey
Food chain
Consumer
43. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Recyclable
Industrial Revolution
Green revolution
44. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Condensation
Experimental error
Ecological footprint
Non-biodegradable
45. The amount of food production in a given area
Secondary succession
Yield
Ecosystem
Keystone species
46. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Green revolution
Biome
Sustainability
Precipitation
47. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Depleted
Industrial Revolution
Cost benefit analysis
Supply and demand
48. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Species
Dispersal
Abiotic factor
Decomposer
49. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Famine
Pollution
Mutualism
Water cycle
50. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Sustainability
Fossil fuel
Carnivore