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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Green revolution
Control Group
2. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Symbiosis
Food web
Experimental Groups
Decomposer
3. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Sustainability
Pollution
Community
4. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Community
Grains
Famine
5. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Bar graph
Predation
Food chain
6. The number of different species in a given area
Biodegradable
Hunters and Gatherers
Dispersal
Biodiversity
7. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Subsistence farmers
Global warming
Succession
Cost benefit analysis
8. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Abiotic factor
Environmental Science
Dispersal
9. Heat from the Earth's interior
Predation
Geothermal energy
Precipitation
Growth rate
10. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Precipitation
Green revolution
Biodegradable
Environmental issue
11. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Green revolution
Ecological footprint
Agriculture
Environmental issue
12. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Commensalism
Species
Cost benefit analysis
Endangered species
13. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Precipitation
Fossil fuel
Major food nutrients
Climate
14. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Ecology
Bar graph
Agriculture Revolution
15. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Renewable resources
Climate
Global warming
Groundwater
16. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Hunters and Gatherers
Parasite
Adaptations
Habitat
17. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Immigration
Famine
Poaching
Parasite
18. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Control Group
Pie graph
Carrying capacity
Threatened species
19. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Growth rate
Environmental Science
Grains
Nonrenewable resource
20. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Predation
Agriculture
Parasite
Greenhouse effect
21. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Environmental Science
Column Graph
Endangered species
22. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Habitat
Evaporation
Temperature
Producer
23. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Geothermal energy
Food chain
Environmental issue
Endangered species
24. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Fossil fuel
human error
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
25. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Poaching
Extinction
Parasitism
Pie graph
26. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Risk assessment
Green revolution
Selective cutting
27. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Line graph
Omnivore
Dispersal
Hunters and Gatherers
28. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biodiversity
Environmental issue
Biome
Depleted
29. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Natural Resource
Geothermal energy
Dispersal
Global warming
30. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
Hunters and Gatherers
Green revolution
31. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Developed countries
Prey
Limiting factor
Keystone species
32. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Carnivore
Dependent variable
Sustainability
Biodiversity
33. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Extinction
Nitrogen fixation
Hunters and Gatherers
Diet
34. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Niche
Subsistence farmers
Succession
Biodegradable
35. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Pollution
Agriculture
Efficiency
Symbiosis
36. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Global warming
Species
Immigration
Geothermal energy
37. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Biotic factor
Prey
Fossil fuel
Energy conservation
38. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Environmental Science
Adaptations
Diet
Dispersal
39. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Water cycle
Natural resource
Control Group
Column Graph
40. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Predator
Biodegradable
Primary succession
Cost benefit analysis
41. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Abiotic factor
Community
Depleted
42. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Malnutrition
Nonrenewable resource
Nonrenewable resource
Non-biodegradable
43. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Cost benefit analysis
Nonrenewable resource
Mass extinctions
Omnivore
44. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Keystone species
Predation
Renewable resource
Community
45. The practice of reducing energy use
Climate
Habitat
Hunters and Gatherers
Energy conservation
46. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Succession
Carrying capacity
Pie graph
47. A relationship in which both species benefit
Predator
Selective cutting
Mutualism
Yield
48. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Agriculture
Niche
Natural resource
49. Organism that does the killing
Hunters and Gatherers
Independent variable
Greenhouse effect
Predator
50. Possible to use again
Experimental error
Succession
Recyclable
Depleted