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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The effect of the IV
Efficiency
Extinction
Dependent variable
Energy conservation
2. Organism that does the killing
Mass extinctions
Predator
Immigration
Biodegradable
3. Moving into a population
Consumer
Cost benefit analysis
Energy conservation
Immigration
4. The number of different species in an area
Renewable resources
Major food nutrients
Industrial Revolution
Biodiversity
5. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Green revolution
Food web
Food chain
Decomposer
6. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Mass extinctions
Pie graph
Nonrecyclable
Estuary
7. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Parasitism
Growth rate
Recyclable
8. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Threatened species
Poaching
Control Group
9. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Developed countries
Yield
Commensalism
Food chain
10. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Line graph
Non-biodegradable
Renewable resource
Selective cutting
11. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Supply and demand
Growth rate
Natural selection
12. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Risk assessment
Agriculture Revolution
Succession
13. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Limiting factor
Column Graph
Predator
Yield
14. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Diet
Nonrecyclable
Environmental Science
Evaporation
15. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Community
Habitat
Dependent variable
Biodegradable
16. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Parasitism
Nonrenewable resource
Biodiversity
17. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Evaporation
Carnivore
Secondary succession
Omnivore
18. Flaw in design of procedure
Climate
Dependent variable
Hunters and Gatherers
Experimental error
19. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Yield
Diet
Abiotic factor
20. The largest population that an area can support
human error
Carrying capacity
Global warming
Estuary
21. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Famine
Biodiversity
Water cycle
22. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Species
Biotic factor
Agriculture Revolution
Natural selection
23. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Dependent variable
Niche
Groundwater
Developing countries
24. A relationship in which both species benefit
Environmental issue
Mutualism
Global warming
Major food nutrients
25. The amount of food production in a given area
Mutualism
Diet
Natural resource
Yield
26. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Yield
Temperature
Estuary
Experimental error
27. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Sustainability
Developing countries
Nonrecyclable
Herbivore
28. Leaving a population
Biodegradable
Pollution
Predator
Emigration
29. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Food web
Geothermal energy
Experimental Groups
Global warming
30. Something that breaks down into soil
Condensation
Independent variable
Developing countries
Biodegradable
31. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Renewable resources
Species
Selective cutting
32. Mass destruction of most species
Cost benefit analysis
Major food nutrients
Mass extinctions
Environmental Science
33. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Omnivore
Water cycle
Biome
Adaptations
34. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Competition
Subsistence farmers
Pie graph
Recyclable
35. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Niche
Succession
Ecology
Recyclable
36. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Limiting factor
Subsistence farmers
Carrying capacity
Parasitism
37. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Secondary succession
Scatter graph
Pioneer species
38. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Mutualism
Secondary succession
Biotic factor
39. A living part of an organism's habitat
Industrial Revolution
Water cycle
Biotic factor
Biodegradable
40. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Scatter graph
Malnutrition
Fossil fuel
Predator
41. Possible to use again
Water cycle
Recyclable
Diet
Mass extinctions
42. All the different populations that live together in an area
Growth rate
Limiting factor
Community
Extinction
43. Anything that harms an organism
Dependent variable
Pollution
Omnivore
Parasite
44. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Population
Immigration
Malnutrition
Threatened species
45. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Carnivore
Data table
Independent variable
46. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Growth rate
Green revolution
Decomposer
Industrial Revolution
47. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Mass extinctions
human error
Major food nutrients
48. Resources supplied by nature
Global warming
Independent variable
Biome
Natural Resource
49. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Line graph
Renewable resource
Scavenger
Biodiversity
50. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Cost benefit analysis
Diet
Subsistence farmers
Ecological footprint