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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The number of different species in an area
Climate
Biodiversity
Industrial Revolution
Pioneer species
2. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Carnivore
Natural Resource
Decomposer
Subsistence farmers
3. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Column Graph
Groundwater
Primary succession
Abiotic factor
4. Heat from the Earth's interior
Cost benefit analysis
Line graph
Risk assessment
Geothermal energy
5. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Fossil fuel
Water cycle
Environmental Science
Recyclable
6. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Precipitation
Independent variable
Efficiency
7. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Mass extinctions
Fossil fuel
Biodegradable
Pie graph
8. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Global warming
Fossil fuel
Decomposer
Natural resource
9. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Nonrenewable resource
Ecosystem
Dispersal
10. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Condensation
Extinction
Primary succession
Agriculture
11. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Competition
Primary succession
Agriculture
12. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Industrial Revolution
Scatter graph
Food web
human error
13. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Water cycle
Control Group
Ecological footprint
Evaporation
14. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Subsistence farmers
Poaching
Ecological footprint
15. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Parasitism
Tragedy of the commons
Evaporation
Food web
16. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Dispersal
Symbiosis
Community
Secondary succession
17. The variable that you manipulate
Poaching
Symbiosis
Line graph
Independent variable
18. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Line graph
Biodegradable
Efficiency
Biodiversity
19. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Data table
Host
Global warming
Omnivore
20. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Line graph
Renewable resources
Consumer
Parasite
21. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Agriculture
Pioneer species
Parasitism
Non-biodegradable
22. Organism that is killed
Prey
Famine
Predation
Succession
23. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Renewable resources
human error
Competition
24. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Condensation
Experimental Groups
Nonrenewable resource
Endangered species
25. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Herbivore
Nonrecyclable
Carnivore
Supply and demand
26. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Environmental issue
Tragedy of the commons
Precipitation
Agriculture Revolution
27. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Producer
Renewable resources
Primary succession
Hunters and Gatherers
28. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Succession
Biodiversity
Mass extinctions
Temperature
29. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Carrying capacity
Recyclable
Environmental issue
Ecological footprint
30. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Food web
Agriculture
Natural Resource
Malnutrition
31. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Estuary
Pioneer species
Species
Host
32. Leaving a population
Community
Growth rate
Non-biodegradable
Emigration
33. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biodiversity
Biotic factor
Consumer
Immigration
34. Flaw in design of procedure
Niche
Experimental error
Yield
Ecology
35. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Decomposer
Experimental Groups
Abiotic factor
36. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Biodiversity
Condensation
Competition
Symbiosis
37. Organism that does the killing
Agriculture
Experimental Groups
Predator
Cost benefit analysis
38. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Symbiosis
Ecological footprint
Line graph
Predator
39. Resources supplied by nature
Major food nutrients
Habitat
Carnivore
Natural Resource
40. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Host
Data table
Line graph
41. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Malnutrition
Biodegradable
Dependent variable
42. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Efficiency
Temperature
Symbiosis
Parasite
43. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Biodiversity
Line graph
Food chain
Pie graph
44. Something that breaks down into soil
Scavenger
Omnivore
Pioneer species
Biodegradable
45. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Temperature
Estuary
Developing countries
Keystone species
46. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Selective cutting
Nitrogen fixation
Symbiosis
Mutualism
47. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Nonrenewable resource
Fossil fuel
Mutualism
48. The largest population that an area can support
Adaptations
Prey
Habitat
Carrying capacity
49. Moving into a population
Data table
Biodiversity
Parasite
Immigration
50. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Efficiency
Famine
Malnutrition
Temperature
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