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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Water cycle
Climate
2. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Biodegradable
Precipitation
Agriculture
Ecology
3. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Major food nutrients
Scatter graph
Diet
Carnivore
4. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Depleted
Pie graph
Symbiosis
Subsistence farmers
5. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
human error
Famine
Biodiversity
Food web
6. A chart with bars
Groundwater
Bar graph
Industrial Revolution
Data table
7. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Nonrenewable resource
Carrying capacity
Industrial Revolution
Tragedy of the commons
8. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Dependent variable
Estuary
Experimental Groups
9. All the members of one species in a particular area
Line graph
Data table
Population
Grains
10. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Extinction
Geothermal energy
Line graph
11. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Natural Resource
Developed countries
Risk assessment
12. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Natural Resource
Herbivore
Food web
13. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Limiting factor
Nitrogen fixation
Evaporation
14. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Prey
Green revolution
Immigration
Ecology
15. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Tragedy of the commons
Line graph
Environmental issue
Scavenger
16. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Agriculture Revolution
Agriculture
Developed countries
Habitat
17. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Habitat
Decomposer
Agriculture
18. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Parasitism
Natural selection
human error
Ecology
19. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Malnutrition
Depleted
Immigration
20. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Species
Temperature
Hunters and Gatherers
Biome
21. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Efficiency
Climate
Carnivore
Extinction
22. An organism that can make it's own food
Secondary succession
Scavenger
Producer
Community
23. Mass destruction of most species
Growth rate
Depleted
Mass extinctions
Adaptations
24. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Competition
Food chain
Parasite
Adaptations
25. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Sustainability
Evaporation
Industrial Revolution
26. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Nonrecyclable
Famine
Poaching
Dependent variable
27. A consumer that eats only plants
Decomposer
Herbivore
Non-biodegradable
Natural selection
28. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Omnivore
Climate
Agriculture
Community
29. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Diet
Subsistence farmers
Competition
30. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Biotic factor
Yield
Predator
31. A living part of an organism's habitat
Nitrogen fixation
Biotic factor
Green revolution
Worlds 5 Main Foods
32. A relationship in which both species benefit
Major food nutrients
Dispersal
Mutualism
Experimental Groups
33. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Scavenger
Control Group
Grains
Dependent variable
34. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Groundwater
Nonrenewable resource
Population
Primary succession
35. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Biodiversity
Ecological footprint
Dependent variable
36. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Pioneer species
Immigration
Symbiosis
Predation
37. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Dependent variable
Species
Yield
Non-biodegradable
38. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Nonrenewable resource
Industrial Revolution
Emigration
39. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Selective cutting
Climate
Niche
Community
40. Possible to use again
Greenhouse effect
Species
Recyclable
Decomposer
41. A consumer that eats only animals
Climate
Biodegradable
Carnivore
Food web
42. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Geothermal energy
Global warming
Risk assessment
Consumer
43. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Community
Supply and demand
Commensalism
Energy conservation
44. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Experimental error
Condensation
Developed countries
Parasitism
45. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Dispersal
Cost benefit analysis
Species
Experimental Groups
46. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Agriculture
Poaching
Dispersal
Parasitism
47. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Fossil fuel
Recyclable
Line graph
48. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Biodegradable
Ecological footprint
Cost benefit analysis
49. Moving into a population
Nonrecyclable
Supply and demand
Immigration
Yield
50. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Nonrenewable resource
Pioneer species
Column Graph
Food chain