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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Food web
Yield
Natural resource
2. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Symbiosis
Yield
Adaptations
3. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Limiting factor
Developing countries
Food chain
Control Group
4. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Grains
Experimental Groups
Poaching
Producer
5. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Limiting factor
Species
Depleted
Supply and demand
6. The largest population that an area can support
Recyclable
Carrying capacity
Pioneer species
Keystone species
7. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Abiotic factor
Consumer
Global warming
Limiting factor
8. The effect of the IV
Ecology
Dependent variable
Selective cutting
Omnivore
9. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Developed countries
Non-biodegradable
Tragedy of the commons
Endangered species
10. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Parasitism
Commensalism
Abiotic factor
Groundwater
11. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Energy conservation
Endangered species
Estuary
Tragedy of the commons
12. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Host
Supply and demand
Scavenger
Diet
13. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Experimental Groups
Threatened species
Parasitism
Keystone species
14. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Renewable resource
Sustainability
Natural selection
15. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Natural selection
Water cycle
Efficiency
Ecosystem
16. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Extinction
Natural selection
Community
Poaching
17. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Biotic factor
Column Graph
Estuary
18. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Species
Parasite
Carnivore
19. A consumer that eats only animals
Developed countries
Carnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Depleted
20. Mass destruction of most species
Non-biodegradable
Environmental issue
Experimental error
Mass extinctions
21. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Adaptations
Major food nutrients
Pollution
Groundwater
22. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Efficiency
Omnivore
Parasite
Selective cutting
23. Heat from the Earth's interior
Industrial Revolution
Natural Resource
Geothermal energy
Carnivore
24. A chart with bars
Primary succession
Condensation
Geothermal energy
Bar graph
25. Something that breaks down into soil
Succession
Population
Biodegradable
Hunters and Gatherers
26. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Recyclable
Pie graph
Emigration
27. The variable that you manipulate
Water cycle
Environmental Science
Independent variable
Commensalism
28. Flaw in design of procedure
Biodiversity
Symbiosis
Control Group
Experimental error
29. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Sustainability
Environmental Science
Succession
Malnutrition
30. The rate of which a plant grows at
Biodegradable
Column Graph
Food chain
Growth rate
31. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Diet
Pie graph
Host
32. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Agriculture
Carnivore
Sustainability
33. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Ecological footprint
Mass extinctions
Immigration
34. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Limiting factor
Host
Experimental error
Energy conservation
35. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Water cycle
Hunters and Gatherers
Predation
Renewable resources
36. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Greenhouse effect
Host
Natural Resource
37. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Ecosystem
Biodegradable
Malnutrition
Groundwater
38. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Sustainability
Tragedy of the commons
Green revolution
Biodegradable
39. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Herbivore
Water cycle
Biodiversity
Agriculture Revolution
40. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Subsistence farmers
Famine
Primary succession
Renewable resource
41. The amount of food production in a given area
Competition
Yield
Symbiosis
Condensation
42. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Climate
Fossil fuel
Energy conservation
43. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Diet
Agriculture Revolution
Food chain
Omnivore
44. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Adaptations
Competition
Habitat
Bar graph
45. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Ecological footprint
Food web
Dispersal
Groundwater
46. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Ecosystem
human error
Consumer
Symbiosis
47. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Scavenger
Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Limiting factor
48. Organism that is killed
Grains
Supply and demand
Prey
Experimental error
49. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Nitrogen fixation
Biome
Scatter graph
Host
50. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Temperature
Estuary
Nonrecyclable
Control Group