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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Ecosystem
Experimental Groups
Endangered species
Secondary succession
2. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Producer
Diet
Supply and demand
Selective cutting
3. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Developing countries
Independent variable
Habitat
Major food nutrients
4. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Endangered species
Symbiosis
Extinction
Greenhouse effect
5. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Secondary succession
Food chain
Column Graph
6. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Control Group
Precipitation
Secondary succession
Bar graph
7. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Keystone species
Natural resource
Recyclable
8. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Competition
Depleted
Herbivore
9. Moving into a population
Environmental issue
Immigration
Nonrecyclable
Community
10. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Independent variable
Symbiosis
Primary succession
Food chain
11. The effect of the IV
Data table
Dependent variable
Natural selection
Industrial Revolution
12. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Developing countries
Condensation
Adaptations
Biome
13. Mass destruction of most species
human error
Mass extinctions
Scatter graph
Biodiversity
14. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Sustainability
Depleted
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Energy conservation
15. The practice of reducing energy use
Pollution
Herbivore
Greenhouse effect
Energy conservation
16. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
Mutualism
Control Group
17. The variable that you manipulate
human error
Greenhouse effect
Agriculture
Independent variable
18. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Grains
Dependent variable
Competition
19. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Bar graph
Hunters and Gatherers
Extinction
Renewable resources
20. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Greenhouse effect
Keystone species
Biodiversity
Predation
21. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural selection
Green revolution
Natural resource
Energy conservation
22. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Groundwater
Ecosystem
Green revolution
Pollution
23. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Experimental Groups
Producer
Biodiversity
24. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Energy conservation
Herbivore
Omnivore
Green revolution
25. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Scavenger
Decomposer
Niche
Biotic factor
26. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Biodiversity
Dependent variable
Column Graph
Agriculture
27. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Subsistence farmers
Depleted
Cost benefit analysis
Habitat
28. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Food chain
Evaporation
Scavenger
Succession
29. Organism that does the killing
Mutualism
Grains
Data table
Predator
30. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Yield
Succession
Agriculture Revolution
Cost benefit analysis
31. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Natural selection
Agriculture
Line graph
32. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Consumer
Niche
Experimental Groups
33. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Agriculture
Subsistence farmers
Dispersal
Natural resource
34. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Environmental Science
Ecology
Extinction
Agriculture
35. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Subsistence farmers
Green revolution
Non-biodegradable
Ecosystem
36. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Industrial Revolution
Grains
Bar graph
Major food nutrients
37. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Abiotic factor
Limiting factor
human error
38. Anything that harms an organism
Greenhouse effect
Pollution
Succession
Predation
39. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Extinction
Endangered species
Tragedy of the commons
Natural selection
40. A consumer that eats only plants
Agriculture
Herbivore
Green revolution
Independent variable
41. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Major food nutrients
Abiotic factor
Grains
Pie graph
42. The amount of food production in a given area
Geothermal energy
Yield
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Independent variable
43. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Precipitation
Pie graph
Nonrenewable resource
44. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Immigration
Abiotic factor
Nitrogen fixation
Efficiency
45. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Hunters and Gatherers
Environmental Science
Groundwater
Water cycle
46. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Estuary
Experimental error
Risk assessment
47. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Biotic factor
Nonrecyclable
Niche
Emigration
48. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Carnivore
Nonrecyclable
Biotic factor
Agriculture
49. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Adaptations
Biodegradable
Bar graph
Global warming
50. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Column Graph
Developing countries
Water cycle
Symbiosis