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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
human error
Parasite
Omnivore
Keystone species
2. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Extinction
Line graph
Grains
3. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Agriculture Revolution
Cost benefit analysis
Limiting factor
Competition
4. Mistake in following procedure
Green revolution
Nitrogen fixation
Pioneer species
human error
5. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Natural resource
Pie graph
Natural Resource
6. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Line graph
Host
Nonrenewable resource
7. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Grains
Control Group
Agriculture
8. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Environmental Science
Species
Supply and demand
9. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Dependent variable
Prey
Geothermal energy
10. Heat from the Earth's interior
Scavenger
Geothermal energy
Decomposer
Nonrenewable resource
11. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Major food nutrients
Succession
Decomposer
Nonrenewable resource
12. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Greenhouse effect
Endangered species
Ecosystem
Limiting factor
13. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Agriculture Revolution
Experimental Groups
Environmental issue
Major food nutrients
14. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Control Group
Geothermal energy
Nitrogen fixation
15. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Developing countries
Pie graph
Nonrenewable resource
16. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Yield
Hunters and Gatherers
Biome
Line graph
17. All the different populations that live together in an area
Energy conservation
Immigration
Developed countries
Community
18. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Green revolution
Scavenger
Keystone species
19. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Agriculture Revolution
Nonrenewable resource
Nonrenewable resource
20. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Food chain
Carrying capacity
Risk assessment
21. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Population
Predation
Environmental Science
Poaching
22. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Experimental error
Poaching
Biodegradable
23. A consumer that eats only animals
Energy conservation
Carnivore
Green revolution
Column Graph
24. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Biodegradable
Biodegradable
Greenhouse effect
Fossil fuel
25. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Dispersal
Malnutrition
Competition
Primary succession
26. Something that breaks down into soil
Nonrenewable resource
Succession
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
27. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
Scatter graph
Pie graph
28. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Carnivore
Groundwater
Host
Nonrenewable resource
29. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Agriculture
Symbiosis
Mass extinctions
30. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Environmental Science
Famine
Experimental error
Green revolution
31. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Experimental Groups
Ecology
Herbivore
Global warming
32. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Yield
Environmental issue
Producer
Parasitism
33. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Niche
Agriculture Revolution
Decomposer
34. Organism that does the killing
Mass extinctions
Predator
Succession
Geothermal energy
35. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Renewable resource
Dispersal
Threatened species
Environmental issue
36. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Carnivore
Nitrogen fixation
Sustainability
Agriculture Revolution
37. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Predation
Diet
Green revolution
Experimental Groups
38. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Nonrecyclable
Food web
Niche
Tragedy of the commons
39. A relationship in which both species benefit
Primary succession
Data table
Experimental error
Mutualism
40. Possible to use again
Risk assessment
Threatened species
Emigration
Recyclable
41. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Emigration
Biodegradable
Limiting factor
Column Graph
42. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Renewable resources
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Control Group
43. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Biodegradable
Scavenger
Worlds 5 Main Foods
44. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Developed countries
Temperature
Dispersal
Famine
45. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Column Graph
Natural selection
human error
Host
46. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Biodegradable
Nonrecyclable
Recyclable
Experimental error
47. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Developed countries
Predator
Host
Natural resource
48. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Renewable resource
Industrial Revolution
Selective cutting
Commensalism
49. A consumer that eats only plants
Bar graph
Pollution
Herbivore
Environmental issue
50. A living part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Limiting factor
Non-biodegradable
Biotic factor