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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Famine
Evaporation
Developing countries
Commensalism
2. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Global warming
Yield
Precipitation
Non-biodegradable
3. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Developed countries
Dependent variable
Pollution
Poaching
4. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Experimental error
Supply and demand
Predation
Ecology
5. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Scavenger
Groundwater
Limiting factor
Predation
6. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
Yield
7. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Food chain
Ecosystem
Carnivore
Pollution
8. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Producer
Food chain
Column Graph
Selective cutting
9. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Tragedy of the commons
Decomposer
Natural selection
10. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Column Graph
Renewable resources
Commensalism
Parasitism
11. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Famine
Omnivore
Habitat
12. Flaw in design of procedure
Abiotic factor
Environmental issue
Experimental error
Endangered species
13. Something that breaks down into soil
Tragedy of the commons
Malnutrition
Biodegradable
Non-biodegradable
14. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Adaptations
Climate
Recyclable
15. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Green revolution
Competition
Extinction
Natural Resource
16. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Ecology
Limiting factor
Natural resource
Cost benefit analysis
17. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Carrying capacity
Diet
Sustainability
18. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Secondary succession
Habitat
Commensalism
Agriculture Revolution
19. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Sustainability
Precipitation
Scatter graph
20. A living part of an organism's habitat
Predation
Geothermal energy
Bar graph
Biotic factor
21. The practice of reducing energy use
Sustainability
Biodiversity
Energy conservation
Consumer
22. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Niche
Predation
Fossil fuel
Population
23. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Tragedy of the commons
Renewable resource
Nonrecyclable
Parasitism
24. All the members of one species in a particular area
Pie graph
Biotic factor
Temperature
Population
25. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Risk assessment
Food chain
Ecology
Scavenger
26. A consumer that eats only animals
Prey
Control Group
Scatter graph
Carnivore
27. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Evaporation
Ecosystem
Dispersal
Mutualism
28. An organism that can make it's own food
Biodiversity
Independent variable
Producer
Nonrenewable resource
29. The first species to populate the area
human error
Pioneer species
Secondary succession
Poaching
30. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Ecological footprint
Scavenger
Control Group
31. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Agriculture
Temperature
Biodegradable
32. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Limiting factor
Immigration
Grains
Groundwater
33. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Ecology
Biodegradable
Natural selection
34. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Natural Resource
Efficiency
Biodiversity
Hunters and Gatherers
35. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Scatter graph
Succession
Selective cutting
Biodiversity
36. Mistake in following procedure
Biome
human error
Immigration
Evaporation
37. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Ecological footprint
Dispersal
Food web
Keystone species
38. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Food chain
Host
Biome
Secondary succession
39. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Column Graph
Scatter graph
Agriculture
Extinction
40. The number of different species in a given area
Independent variable
Emigration
Biodiversity
Risk assessment
41. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Green revolution
Natural Resource
Climate
Recyclable
42. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Predator
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Immigration
43. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Secondary succession
Developed countries
Recyclable
Nonrenewable resource
44. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Experimental error
Nitrogen fixation
Ecology
Mass extinctions
45. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Line graph
Keystone species
Secondary succession
Population
46. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Prey
Cost benefit analysis
Green revolution
Carnivore
47. Anything that harms an organism
Natural resource
Pollution
Agriculture Revolution
Food web
48. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodegradable
Immigration
Biodiversity
49. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Experimental Groups
Biodiversity
human error
Major food nutrients
50. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Biodegradable
Scatter graph
Condensation
Fossil fuel