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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Ecological footprint
Evaporation
Extinction
Poaching
2. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Depleted
Tragedy of the commons
Habitat
Experimental error
3. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
human error
Secondary succession
Control Group
Industrial Revolution
4. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Endangered species
Succession
Parasite
5. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Herbivore
Water cycle
Data table
6. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Limiting factor
Famine
Parasite
Temperature
7. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Mutualism
Fossil fuel
human error
Column Graph
8. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Food chain
Species
Scavenger
Greenhouse effect
9. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Decomposer
Climate
Agriculture Revolution
Supply and demand
10. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Famine
Scavenger
Fossil fuel
11. Mistake in following procedure
Environmental Science
human error
Habitat
Biome
12. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Column Graph
Competition
Pollution
13. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Primary succession
Prey
Consumer
14. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Pioneer species
Secondary succession
Groundwater
15. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Biodiversity
Carnivore
Hunters and Gatherers
Developed countries
16. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Dependent variable
Ecology
Endangered species
17. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Precipitation
Nonrecyclable
Immigration
Adaptations
18. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Succession
Greenhouse effect
Fossil fuel
Commensalism
19. A consumer that eats only plants
Agriculture Revolution
Climate
Famine
Herbivore
20. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Energy conservation
Mutualism
Ecology
Adaptations
21. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Condensation
Pollution
Symbiosis
Community
22. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Malnutrition
Biodegradable
Agriculture
Control Group
23. Moving into a population
Hunters and Gatherers
Evaporation
Immigration
Line graph
24. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Abiotic factor
Natural selection
Ecological footprint
25. The number of different species in a given area
Consumer
Omnivore
Water cycle
Biodiversity
26. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Pie graph
Keystone species
Experimental Groups
Host
27. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Poaching
Developed countries
Evaporation
28. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Limiting factor
Precipitation
Green revolution
Major food nutrients
29. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Subsistence farmers
Ecosystem
Mutualism
Succession
30. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Emigration
Diet
Bar graph
Precipitation
31. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Herbivore
Decomposer
Tragedy of the commons
32. Heat from the Earth's interior
Scavenger
Geothermal energy
Depleted
Global warming
33. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Supply and demand
Ecosystem
Omnivore
Subsistence farmers
34. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Immigration
Decomposer
Industrial Revolution
Diet
35. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Tragedy of the commons
Keystone species
Green revolution
Groundwater
36. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Non-biodegradable
Ecological footprint
Secondary succession
Biome
37. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Pie graph
Climate
Nonrenewable resource
Tragedy of the commons
38. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Ecosystem
Biodegradable
Data table
Column Graph
39. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Community
Growth rate
Pie graph
40. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation
Species
41. All the different populations that live together in an area
Environmental issue
Dispersal
Community
Ecology
42. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Predation
Global warming
Extinction
43. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Famine
Line graph
Limiting factor
Evaporation
44. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Biodiversity
Efficiency
Consumer
Nonrenewable resource
45. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Independent variable
Evaporation
Global warming
Column Graph
46. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Geothermal energy
Grains
Environmental issue
Data table
47. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Parasitism
Competition
Pie graph
Non-biodegradable
48. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Biodiversity
Producer
Renewable resources
49. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Biodiversity
Fossil fuel
Independent variable
50. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Secondary succession
Competition
Natural selection
Pioneer species