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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Immigration
Ecology
Control Group
2. The effect of the IV
Biodiversity
Non-biodegradable
Host
Dependent variable
3. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Bar graph
Natural resource
Nonrenewable resource
Major food nutrients
4. Possible to use again
Malnutrition
Recyclable
Food chain
Global warming
5. Mass destruction of most species
Column Graph
Selective cutting
Growth rate
Mass extinctions
6. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Competition
Control Group
Ecological footprint
Abiotic factor
7. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Scatter graph
Host
Recyclable
Ecological footprint
8. Organism that is killed
Dispersal
Succession
Prey
Carnivore
9. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Environmental Science
Endangered species
Fossil fuel
Condensation
10. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Water cycle
Independent variable
Control Group
Major food nutrients
11. The number of different species in an area
Control Group
Renewable resources
Biodiversity
Line graph
12. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Extinction
Malnutrition
Fossil fuel
Industrial Revolution
13. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Dependent variable
Ecosystem
Water cycle
Natural Resource
14. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Nonrenewable resource
Precipitation
Mutualism
Host
15. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Greenhouse effect
Herbivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
16. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Major food nutrients
Primary succession
Extinction
Biodegradable
17. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Developed countries
Keystone species
Major food nutrients
Yield
18. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Green revolution
Energy conservation
Habitat
19. An organism that can make it's own food
Famine
Biodiversity
Producer
Natural resource
20. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Biodegradable
Developed countries
Bar graph
Abiotic factor
21. The first species to populate the area
Environmental issue
Pioneer species
Endangered species
Species
22. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Grains
Renewable resource
Abiotic factor
23. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Bar graph
Symbiosis
Non-biodegradable
Estuary
24. Something that breaks down into soil
Adaptations
Ecological footprint
Biodegradable
Omnivore
25. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Depleted
Mutualism
Poaching
Pie graph
26. A living part of an organism's habitat
Commensalism
Biotic factor
Host
Pollution
27. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Species
Risk assessment
Cost benefit analysis
Renewable resource
28. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Control Group
human error
Symbiosis
Ecology
29. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Tragedy of the commons
Groundwater
Depleted
30. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Supply and demand
Extinction
Hunters and Gatherers
Estuary
31. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Environmental Science
Predator
Secondary succession
32. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Herbivore
Green revolution
Experimental error
Recyclable
33. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Poaching
Precipitation
Food web
Sustainability
34. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Environmental Science
Efficiency
Limiting factor
35. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Dependent variable
Agriculture
Control Group
Scatter graph
36. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Succession
Nonrecyclable
Developing countries
Consumer
37. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Cost benefit analysis
Non-biodegradable
Experimental error
Parasite
38. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Biodiversity
Major food nutrients
Global warming
39. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Risk assessment
Abiotic factor
Hunters and Gatherers
40. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Primary succession
Renewable resource
Decomposer
41. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Herbivore
Risk assessment
Ecological footprint
Efficiency
42. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Famine
Limiting factor
Prey
43. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Prey
Abiotic factor
Pollution
Data table
44. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Pie graph
Depleted
Control Group
Renewable resource
45. The largest population that an area can support
Renewable resources
Non-biodegradable
Carrying capacity
Host
46. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Data table
Supply and demand
Competition
Predation
47. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Secondary succession
Environmental Science
Threatened species
Growth rate
48. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Pollution
Hunters and Gatherers
Nonrenewable resource
Evaporation
49. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Pioneer species
Geothermal energy
Food chain
Succession
50. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Immigration
Growth rate
Sustainability
Commensalism