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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The rate of which a plant grows at
Developed countries
Growth rate
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nonrecyclable
2. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Secondary succession
Food web
Evaporation
Major food nutrients
3. Heat from the Earth's interior
Predation
Sustainability
Geothermal energy
Nonrenewable resource
4. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Data table
Poaching
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Natural selection
5. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Greenhouse effect
Natural selection
Industrial Revolution
Condensation
6. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Developing countries
Tragedy of the commons
Developed countries
7. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Industrial Revolution
Endangered species
Famine
Threatened species
8. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Predator
Agriculture
Greenhouse effect
9. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Succession
Diet
Malnutrition
Natural selection
10. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Natural Resource
Biodegradable
Control Group
11. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Natural selection
Depleted
Consumer
12. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Omnivore
Efficiency
Malnutrition
Line graph
13. A chart with bars
Climate
Major food nutrients
Bar graph
Decomposer
14. Mass destruction of most species
Scavenger
Renewable resource
Mass extinctions
Nonrenewable resource
15. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Water cycle
Keystone species
Symbiosis
Host
16. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Extinction
Natural selection
Herbivore
Temperature
17. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Evaporation
Nitrogen fixation
Primary succession
18. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Competition
Renewable resource
Dependent variable
Abiotic factor
19. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Immigration
Biodiversity
Agriculture
Species
20. All the different populations that live together in an area
Non-biodegradable
Competition
Parasite
Community
21. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Poaching
Parasitism
Developing countries
22. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Carnivore
Nonrenewable resource
Pollution
Condensation
23. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Recyclable
Ecological footprint
Primary succession
Mutualism
24. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Malnutrition
Emigration
Symbiosis
Precipitation
25. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Industrial Revolution
Host
Agriculture Revolution
Predator
26. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Data table
Consumer
Column Graph
Experimental Groups
27. A relationship in which both species benefit
Estuary
Mutualism
Hunters and Gatherers
Water cycle
28. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Symbiosis
Omnivore
Prey
29. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Carnivore
Agriculture
Estuary
Extinction
30. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Endangered species
Natural Resource
Line graph
31. Possible to use again
Carrying capacity
Parasite
Host
Recyclable
32. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Geothermal energy
Limiting factor
Community
33. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Biodegradable
Global warming
Adaptations
Carnivore
34. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Host
Malnutrition
Supply and demand
Emigration
35. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Secondary succession
Hunters and Gatherers
Control Group
Biome
36. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Yield
human error
Symbiosis
37. Leaving a population
Grains
Nonrenewable resource
Natural selection
Emigration
38. The number of different species in a given area
Natural resource
Biodiversity
Ecology
Scavenger
39. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Extinction
Primary succession
Tragedy of the commons
Biotic factor
40. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Immigration
Sustainability
Energy conservation
Parasitism
41. The amount of food production in a given area
Food chain
Yield
Pie graph
Pollution
42. The largest population that an area can support
Agriculture Revolution
Carrying capacity
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Line graph
43. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Symbiosis
Abiotic factor
Agriculture Revolution
Host
44. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Predator
Non-biodegradable
Mutualism
45. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Carnivore
Water cycle
Mutualism
Habitat
46. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Selective cutting
Scatter graph
Carnivore
Major food nutrients
47. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Bar graph
Recyclable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodegradable
48. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Water cycle
Community
Abiotic factor
49. Flaw in design of procedure
Environmental Science
Dependent variable
Experimental error
Ecosystem
50. An organism that can make it's own food
Biotic factor
Consumer
Fossil fuel
Producer