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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Global warming
Efficiency
Temperature
Pioneer species
2. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Growth rate
Biome
Host
Poaching
3. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Natural Resource
Greenhouse effect
Non-biodegradable
Limiting factor
4. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Developing countries
Competition
Pioneer species
Climate
5. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Geothermal energy
Species
Keystone species
Mass extinctions
6. Flaw in design of procedure
Poaching
Pioneer species
Hunters and Gatherers
Experimental error
7. Anything that harms an organism
Environmental issue
Mutualism
Pollution
Parasite
8. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Major food nutrients
Evaporation
Biodiversity
Ecology
9. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Carnivore
Growth rate
Developing countries
Consumer
10. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Renewable resource
Scavenger
Precipitation
Biodiversity
11. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Ecology
Climate
Renewable resource
Efficiency
12. Moving into a population
Immigration
Biome
Scavenger
Tragedy of the commons
13. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Industrial Revolution
Estuary
Succession
14. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Selective cutting
Supply and demand
Diet
15. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Grains
Mutualism
Famine
Nonrecyclable
16. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Biome
Global warming
Subsistence farmers
17. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Prey
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental Science
Energy conservation
18. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Non-biodegradable
Renewable resources
Data table
Experimental Groups
19. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Limiting factor
Food chain
Adaptations
Emigration
20. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Dispersal
Food chain
Data table
Extinction
21. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Groundwater
Host
Niche
Ecosystem
22. The amount of food production in a given area
Selective cutting
Biodegradable
Yield
Growth rate
23. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Food chain
Scavenger
Ecological footprint
Carnivore
24. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Carnivore
Precipitation
Niche
Hunters and Gatherers
25. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Renewable resources
Natural resource
Carnivore
Growth rate
26. Organism that is killed
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodiversity
Prey
Yield
27. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Experimental error
Limiting factor
Carrying capacity
Fossil fuel
28. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Efficiency
Niche
Symbiosis
Line graph
29. The largest population that an area can support
Adaptations
Biodiversity
Keystone species
Carrying capacity
30. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Line graph
Non-biodegradable
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
31. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Niche
Scatter graph
Carnivore
Secondary succession
32. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Omnivore
Tragedy of the commons
Primary succession
Green revolution
33. Organism that does the killing
Abiotic factor
Diet
Predator
Host
34. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Green revolution
Poaching
Herbivore
35. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Limiting factor
Species
Grains
Competition
36. All the different populations that live together in an area
Food chain
Community
Omnivore
Emigration
37. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Food chain
Evaporation
Geothermal energy
Developing countries
38. Possible to use again
Climate
Supply and demand
Cost benefit analysis
Recyclable
39. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Biome
Independent variable
Decomposer
Experimental error
40. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Biodiversity
Control Group
Food chain
Natural resource
41. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Primary succession
Green revolution
Predator
Selective cutting
42. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Malnutrition
Nonrenewable resource
Climate
Keystone species
43. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Pollution
Industrial Revolution
Natural selection
44. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Secondary succession
Nitrogen fixation
Emigration
Bar graph
45. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Environmental Science
Food web
Mass extinctions
46. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Limiting factor
Natural Resource
human error
47. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Niche
Biodegradable
Agriculture
Biome
48. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Pie graph
Nonrecyclable
Predation
Nonrenewable resource
49. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Efficiency
Data table
Green revolution
Agriculture
50. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Biome
Secondary succession
Efficiency
Non-biodegradable