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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Host
Competition
Cost benefit analysis
Ecosystem
2. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Commensalism
Selective cutting
Control Group
3. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Cost benefit analysis
Parasite
Nonrenewable resource
4. Mass destruction of most species
Temperature
Secondary succession
Mass extinctions
Natural resource
5. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Predation
Herbivore
Temperature
6. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Temperature
Carnivore
Consumer
7. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Parasitism
Omnivore
Grains
human error
8. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Line graph
Immigration
Nonrecyclable
Endangered species
9. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Hunters and Gatherers
Poaching
Renewable resource
Line graph
10. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Dispersal
Greenhouse effect
Biotic factor
11. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Temperature
Secondary succession
Dispersal
Subsistence farmers
12. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Estuary
Fossil fuel
Species
Selective cutting
13. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Scatter graph
Major food nutrients
Biodegradable
Environmental Science
14. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Recyclable
Major food nutrients
Adaptations
Emigration
15. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Commensalism
Natural Resource
Data table
Precipitation
16. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Experimental error
Decomposer
Energy conservation
Parasitism
17. Moving into a population
Immigration
Energy conservation
Independent variable
Precipitation
18. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Natural Resource
Diet
Greenhouse effect
Pollution
19. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Dependent variable
Sustainability
Biome
20. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Major food nutrients
Developing countries
Dispersal
21. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Niche
Biotic factor
Developed countries
22. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Greenhouse effect
Commensalism
Column Graph
Carrying capacity
23. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Fossil fuel
Scavenger
Risk assessment
24. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Carnivore
Natural selection
Pioneer species
Tragedy of the commons
25. Leaving a population
Species
Poaching
Emigration
Endangered species
26. Flaw in design of procedure
Natural resource
Experimental error
Producer
Biotic factor
27. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Community
Control Group
Industrial Revolution
Column Graph
28. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Limiting factor
Poaching
Threatened species
29. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Biodegradable
Famine
Global warming
30. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Scavenger
Scatter graph
Nonrenewable resource
31. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Column Graph
Fossil fuel
Predation
Population
32. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Producer
Adaptations
Nonrecyclable
33. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Natural selection
Parasite
Global warming
Fossil fuel
34. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Immigration
Data table
Biome
Parasite
35. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Pioneer species
Diet
Niche
36. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Control Group
Extinction
Limiting factor
Adaptations
37. The number of different species in a given area
Precipitation
Abiotic factor
Biodiversity
Risk assessment
38. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Biome
Pie graph
Natural resource
Habitat
39. The amount of food production in a given area
Independent variable
Yield
Green revolution
Environmental Science
40. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Depleted
Non-biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
Ecosystem
41. The largest population that an area can support
Precipitation
Carrying capacity
Risk assessment
Column Graph
42. Organism that is killed
Bar graph
Nonrecyclable
Prey
Pollution
43. Mistake in following procedure
Poaching
human error
Biodegradable
Agriculture
44. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Scavenger
Agriculture
Bar graph
Depleted
45. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Cost benefit analysis
Primary succession
Energy conservation
Pollution
46. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Species
Risk assessment
Selective cutting
Subsistence farmers
47. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Host
Data table
Biodiversity
48. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Agriculture
Yield
Ecosystem
Biotic factor
49. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Geothermal energy
Risk assessment
Biodiversity
Control Group
50. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Environmental Science
Host
Pioneer species
Non-biodegradable