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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Industrial Revolution
Yield
Biodiversity
2. The amount of food production in a given area
Hunters and Gatherers
Yield
Secondary succession
Food web
3. All the members of one species in a particular area
Water cycle
Population
Condensation
Primary succession
4. The largest population that an area can support
Diet
Carrying capacity
Fossil fuel
Tragedy of the commons
5. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Independent variable
Habitat
Ecological footprint
6. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Renewable resources
Parasite
Agriculture Revolution
7. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Symbiosis
Scatter graph
Parasite
Limiting factor
8. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Producer
Renewable resource
Grains
Secondary succession
9. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Nonrecyclable
Precipitation
Renewable resource
Commensalism
10. All the different populations that live together in an area
Renewable resources
Competition
Control Group
Community
11. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Major food nutrients
Sustainability
Selective cutting
12. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Experimental error
Agriculture Revolution
Decomposer
13. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Industrial Revolution
Developing countries
Pie graph
14. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Developed countries
Grains
Pioneer species
Carnivore
15. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Consumer
Pie graph
Parasite
Risk assessment
16. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Predator
Evaporation
Non-biodegradable
17. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Commensalism
Data table
Selective cutting
18. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Biodegradable
Keystone species
Limiting factor
Community
19. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Groundwater
Global warming
Energy conservation
20. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Threatened species
Commensalism
Endangered species
Tragedy of the commons
21. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Renewable resources
Abiotic factor
Hunters and Gatherers
Control Group
22. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Immigration
Developing countries
Experimental Groups
Limiting factor
23. Organism that does the killing
Secondary succession
Biodiversity
Natural Resource
Predator
24. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Commensalism
Habitat
Consumer
Nonrenewable resource
25. A chart with bars
Mutualism
Non-biodegradable
Dependent variable
Bar graph
26. Mistake in following procedure
Selective cutting
human error
Natural selection
Agriculture
27. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Evaporation
Extinction
Immigration
Ecosystem
28. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Diet
Omnivore
Pie graph
Data table
29. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Ecosystem
Agriculture Revolution
Yield
Recyclable
30. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Competition
Primary succession
Energy conservation
Groundwater
31. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Pie graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Ecological footprint
Tragedy of the commons
32. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Biodegradable
Niche
Immigration
Precipitation
33. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Ecological footprint
Commensalism
Industrial Revolution
Risk assessment
34. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Habitat
Global warming
Natural selection
Sustainability
35. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Risk assessment
Mass extinctions
Depleted
Line graph
36. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Niche
Subsistence farmers
Limiting factor
37. Something that breaks down into soil
Grains
Biodegradable
Greenhouse effect
Recyclable
38. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Natural resource
Mutualism
Efficiency
Developing countries
39. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Consumer
Succession
Environmental issue
40. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Column Graph
Host
Bar graph
Precipitation
41. The number of different species in an area
Omnivore
Biodiversity
Industrial Revolution
Pie graph
42. The first species to populate the area
Nonrenewable resource
Evaporation
Industrial Revolution
Pioneer species
43. The practice of reducing energy use
Efficiency
Independent variable
Energy conservation
Community
44. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Developed countries
Primary succession
Keystone species
Pie graph
45. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Biodegradable
Competition
Abiotic factor
Omnivore
46. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Independent variable
Temperature
Herbivore
Line graph
47. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Environmental issue
Nonrenewable resource
Experimental error
Habitat
48. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Malnutrition
Dispersal
Recyclable
Diet
49. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Scavenger
Predation
Poaching
50. An organism that can make it's own food
Competition
Producer
Consumer
Primary succession