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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Precipitation
Poaching
Carnivore
Major food nutrients
2. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Control Group
Malnutrition
Habitat
Threatened species
3. The practice of reducing energy use
Threatened species
Abiotic factor
Immigration
Energy conservation
4. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Dependent variable
human error
Pie graph
5. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Ecology
Greenhouse effect
Predation
Growth rate
6. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Renewable resources
Famine
Limiting factor
Nonrenewable resource
7. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Predator
Endangered species
Species
Water cycle
8. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Environmental issue
Scavenger
Renewable resource
Limiting factor
9. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Dispersal
Risk assessment
Agriculture Revolution
Efficiency
10. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Risk assessment
Greenhouse effect
Adaptations
Experimental Groups
11. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Scatter graph
Secondary succession
Green revolution
Supply and demand
12. Moving into a population
Immigration
Biodegradable
Cost benefit analysis
Species
13. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Mass extinctions
Recyclable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Developing countries
14. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Ecology
Biodiversity
Natural resource
15. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Decomposer
Green revolution
Industrial Revolution
Habitat
16. All the different populations that live together in an area
Non-biodegradable
Community
Renewable resources
Population
17. A living part of an organism's habitat
Poaching
Bar graph
Cost benefit analysis
Biotic factor
18. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Producer
Environmental issue
Immigration
19. The amount of food production in a given area
Malnutrition
Succession
Major food nutrients
Yield
20. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Commensalism
Grains
Agriculture Revolution
Developed countries
21. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental Science
Environmental issue
Developing countries
Niche
22. Leaving a population
Emigration
Mass extinctions
Predator
Grains
23. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Column Graph
Scatter graph
Symbiosis
Nonrenewable resource
24. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Sustainability
human error
Succession
Ecology
25. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Emigration
Non-biodegradable
Keystone species
Carnivore
26. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Control Group
Sustainability
Growth rate
Selective cutting
27. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Nonrecyclable
Temperature
Subsistence farmers
Ecological footprint
28. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Dispersal
Evaporation
Keystone species
29. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Endangered species
Experimental Groups
Agriculture Revolution
Natural Resource
30. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Experimental error
Environmental issue
Diet
Agriculture
31. Something that breaks down into soil
Growth rate
Secondary succession
Non-biodegradable
Biodegradable
32. Resources supplied by nature
Immigration
Diet
Natural Resource
Host
33. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Host
Abiotic factor
Famine
Pollution
34. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Tragedy of the commons
Poaching
Major food nutrients
35. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Biodiversity
Population
Decomposer
Producer
36. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Bar graph
Population
Non-biodegradable
37. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Succession
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Ecology
Greenhouse effect
38. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Developing countries
Greenhouse effect
Habitat
Nonrenewable resource
39. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Consumer
Decomposer
Subsistence farmers
Global warming
40. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Habitat
Tragedy of the commons
Renewable resources
Consumer
41. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Green revolution
Dispersal
Food chain
42. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Ecosystem
Primary succession
Grains
Green revolution
43. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Estuary
Malnutrition
Carnivore
Greenhouse effect
44. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Sustainability
Estuary
Column Graph
Control Group
45. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Diet
Abiotic factor
Host
46. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Experimental error
Industrial Revolution
Biodiversity
47. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Keystone species
Hunters and Gatherers
Omnivore
Ecology
48. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Natural selection
Industrial Revolution
Host
Scatter graph
49. Mass destruction of most species
Limiting factor
Greenhouse effect
Renewable resources
Mass extinctions
50. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Consumer
Experimental Groups
Natural selection
Carnivore
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