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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The first species to populate the area
Ecosystem
Non-biodegradable
Pioneer species
Biodiversity
2. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Developed countries
Agriculture
Decomposer
Worlds 5 Main Foods
3. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Poaching
Prey
Water cycle
Agriculture Revolution
4. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Endangered species
Global warming
Energy conservation
Biome
5. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Independent variable
Commensalism
Worlds 5 Main Foods
6. Organism that is killed
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Prey
Extinction
Scavenger
7. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Mass extinctions
Diet
Pie graph
Experimental Groups
8. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Adaptations
Primary succession
Community
Threatened species
9. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Secondary succession
Bar graph
Emigration
Worlds 5 Main Foods
10. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Water cycle
Decomposer
Dispersal
11. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Mutualism
Competition
Succession
Endangered species
12. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Immigration
Competition
Environmental issue
Food web
13. Resources supplied by nature
Parasitism
Natural Resource
Producer
Independent variable
14. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Temperature
Yield
Greenhouse effect
Abiotic factor
15. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Symbiosis
Industrial Revolution
Yield
16. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Water cycle
Competition
Herbivore
Nonrenewable resource
17. Anything that harms an organism
Carnivore
Omnivore
Pollution
Secondary succession
18. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Community
Host
Scatter graph
19. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Renewable resource
Global warming
Column Graph
Tragedy of the commons
20. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Climate
human error
Risk assessment
21. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Developed countries
Poaching
Abiotic factor
Data table
22. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Predation
Selective cutting
Depleted
Commensalism
23. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Immigration
Secondary succession
Sustainability
Natural Resource
24. Heat from the Earth's interior
Endangered species
Environmental Science
Water cycle
Geothermal energy
25. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Threatened species
Primary succession
Agriculture Revolution
Immigration
26. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Greenhouse effect
Groundwater
Estuary
27. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Consumer
Parasitism
Scatter graph
Tragedy of the commons
28. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Major food nutrients
Immigration
Food chain
Population
29. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Pioneer species
Growth rate
Nonrecyclable
30. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Supply and demand
Recyclable
Experimental Groups
Succession
31. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Poaching
Experimental error
Bar graph
32. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Temperature
Diet
Green revolution
Renewable resources
33. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Greenhouse effect
Pie graph
Limiting factor
Renewable resource
34. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Efficiency
Natural Resource
Precipitation
Developed countries
35. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Nonrenewable resource
Condensation
Geothermal energy
Greenhouse effect
36. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Ecological footprint
Succession
Parasite
37. A chart with bars
Primary succession
human error
Bar graph
Depleted
38. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Extinction
Predator
Line graph
Nonrenewable resource
39. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Greenhouse effect
Nonrenewable resource
Bar graph
40. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Ecosystem
Symbiosis
Fossil fuel
Column Graph
41. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Predator
Non-biodegradable
Extinction
42. The number of different species in an area
Species
Greenhouse effect
Biotic factor
Biodiversity
43. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Biodegradable
Threatened species
Biodegradable
44. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Famine
Host
Precipitation
Risk assessment
45. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Commensalism
Decomposer
Ecological footprint
Adaptations
46. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Abiotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
Non-biodegradable
47. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Subsistence farmers
Symbiosis
Developing countries
Biodegradable
48. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Renewable resource
human error
Ecosystem
Grains
49. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Herbivore
Precipitation
Parasitism
Nonrecyclable
50. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Temperature
Ecosystem
Keystone species
Symbiosis
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