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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Adaptations
Hunters and Gatherers
Efficiency
Scavenger
2. Heat from the Earth's interior
Geothermal energy
Scatter graph
Agriculture Revolution
Herbivore
3. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Predator
Renewable resources
Data table
Symbiosis
4. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Dependent variable
Yield
Parasite
5. A consumer that eats only animals
Decomposer
Condensation
Carnivore
Data table
6. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Greenhouse effect
Primary succession
Commensalism
Parasitism
7. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Selective cutting
Ecology
Supply and demand
Famine
8. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Environmental issue
Nitrogen fixation
Natural resource
9. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Competition
Major food nutrients
Keystone species
Food web
10. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Efficiency
Industrial Revolution
Recyclable
Nonrenewable resource
11. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Famine
Energy conservation
Biome
12. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Omnivore
Parasitism
Evaporation
Secondary succession
13. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Selective cutting
Adaptations
Nonrecyclable
Line graph
14. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Succession
Host
Scatter graph
Poaching
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Herbivore
Agriculture Revolution
Nitrogen fixation
16. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Food web
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Evaporation
Growth rate
17. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Temperature
Food chain
Mutualism
18. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Environmental Science
Consumer
Host
Climate
19. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Risk assessment
Non-biodegradable
Biodiversity
Abiotic factor
20. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Green revolution
Nonrenewable resource
human error
21. A living part of an organism's habitat
Agriculture Revolution
Predator
Pollution
Biotic factor
22. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Grains
Extinction
Independent variable
Climate
23. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasitism
Ecological footprint
human error
Parasite
24. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Adaptations
Pollution
Carrying capacity
25. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Supply and demand
Predator
Ecosystem
Biotic factor
26. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse effect
Efficiency
27. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Bar graph
Famine
Omnivore
28. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Ecological footprint
Threatened species
Dependent variable
29. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Biodiversity
Habitat
Parasite
Groundwater
30. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developed countries
Climate
Poaching
Developing countries
31. Leaving a population
Carrying capacity
Limiting factor
Emigration
Famine
32. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Food web
Biodiversity
Climate
Subsistence farmers
33. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Climate
Yield
Habitat
Keystone species
34. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Biodiversity
Geothermal energy
Nitrogen fixation
Renewable resources
35. A relationship in which both species benefit
Industrial Revolution
Mutualism
Renewable resources
Omnivore
36. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Renewable resources
Extinction
Prey
37. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Carnivore
Endangered species
Condensation
Limiting factor
38. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Precipitation
Water cycle
Renewable resource
Threatened species
39. The amount of food production in a given area
Scatter graph
Yield
Growth rate
Line graph
40. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Pollution
Greenhouse effect
Nonrecyclable
41. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Water cycle
Herbivore
Adaptations
42. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Food chain
Symbiosis
Temperature
Non-biodegradable
43. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Nonrecyclable
Food web
Limiting factor
44. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Mutualism
Supply and demand
Decomposer
45. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Carrying capacity
Commensalism
Biodegradable
Tragedy of the commons
46. Moving into a population
Predation
Immigration
Poaching
Extinction
47. The variable that you manipulate
Nonrenewable resource
Subsistence farmers
Independent variable
Endangered species
48. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Hunters and Gatherers
Biotic factor
Parasite
49. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Risk assessment
Producer
Greenhouse effect
50. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Pie graph
Decomposer
Consumer
Biome
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