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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A consumer that eats only animals
Food chain
Carnivore
Habitat
Biome
2. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Biodegradable
Immigration
Fossil fuel
Poaching
3. The largest population that an area can support
Species
Carrying capacity
Carnivore
Experimental Groups
4. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Ecosystem
Data table
Agriculture Revolution
5. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Pie graph
Ecology
Industrial Revolution
Scavenger
6. An organism that can make it's own food
Parasitism
Precipitation
Producer
Abiotic factor
7. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Natural resource
Biodegradable
Biodiversity
8. Resources supplied by nature
Environmental Science
Food web
Nonrecyclable
Natural Resource
9. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Ecology
Pioneer species
Abiotic factor
Host
10. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Commensalism
Pie graph
Succession
Adaptations
11. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
human error
Nonrecyclable
Global warming
12. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Mass extinctions
Biodiversity
Host
13. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Mass extinctions
Bar graph
Niche
14. The amount of food production in a given area
Industrial Revolution
Depleted
Yield
human error
15. All the members of one species in a particular area
Consumer
Nonrenewable resource
Omnivore
Population
16. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Developing countries
Evaporation
Groundwater
Agriculture
17. Heat from the Earth's interior
Biodegradable
Depleted
Prey
Geothermal energy
18. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Endangered species
Dispersal
Independent variable
19. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Evaporation
Niche
Selective cutting
20. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Immigration
Global warming
Geothermal energy
Subsistence farmers
21. The rate of which a plant grows at
Agriculture
Risk assessment
Carrying capacity
Growth rate
22. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Commensalism
Ecological footprint
Host
Competition
23. Moving into a population
Immigration
Industrial Revolution
Secondary succession
Abiotic factor
24. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Evaporation
Natural Resource
Supply and demand
Symbiosis
25. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Biodegradable
Pioneer species
Poaching
Natural Resource
26. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Ecological footprint
Nonrenewable resource
Groundwater
Biodegradable
27. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Malnutrition
Growth rate
Scavenger
28. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Dependent variable
Biome
Selective cutting
Keystone species
29. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Niche
Column Graph
Dispersal
Agriculture Revolution
30. Flaw in design of procedure
Bar graph
Subsistence farmers
Global warming
Experimental error
31. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Predator
Population
Renewable resources
32. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Extinction
Consumer
Cost benefit analysis
Water cycle
33. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Niche
Prey
Predator
34. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Predator
Niche
Endangered species
Greenhouse effect
35. Leaving a population
Symbiosis
Industrial Revolution
Depleted
Emigration
36. Organism that does the killing
Water cycle
Predator
Producer
Species
37. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Groundwater
Natural selection
Selective cutting
Endangered species
38. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Environmental issue
Experimental Groups
Malnutrition
Risk assessment
39. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Supply and demand
Succession
Depleted
40. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Consumer
Threatened species
Omnivore
Environmental Science
41. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Risk assessment
Biodiversity
Pie graph
42. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Symbiosis
Prey
Cost benefit analysis
Habitat
43. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Biome
Secondary succession
Carrying capacity
44. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Efficiency
Limiting factor
Species
45. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Producer
Population
Condensation
46. Anything that harms an organism
Condensation
Host
Pollution
Cost benefit analysis
47. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Groundwater
Climate
Natural resource
Mass extinctions
48. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Non-biodegradable
Control Group
Subsistence farmers
Natural resource
49. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Habitat
Malnutrition
Food chain
Primary succession
50. Possible to use again
Water cycle
Secondary succession
Renewable resources
Recyclable
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