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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Nonrecyclable
Commensalism
Greenhouse effect
Column Graph
2. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Supply and demand
Predation
Bar graph
Experimental Groups
3. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Energy conservation
Population
Depleted
Developed countries
4. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Developing countries
Global warming
Non-biodegradable
5. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Experimental Groups
Condensation
Ecology
Diet
6. Organism that does the killing
Biome
Species
Predator
Biotic factor
7. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Geothermal energy
Greenhouse effect
Developing countries
Risk assessment
8. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Major food nutrients
Secondary succession
Keystone species
Species
9. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Efficiency
Abiotic factor
Community
10. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Food web
Nonrecyclable
Experimental Groups
Industrial Revolution
11. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Diet
Subsistence farmers
Natural selection
12. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Selective cutting
Nitrogen fixation
Community
13. The amount of food production in a given area
Groundwater
Risk assessment
Yield
Community
14. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Selective cutting
Agriculture
Experimental error
15. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Biodegradable
Ecology
Agriculture
16. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Column Graph
Famine
Nonrenewable resource
Food chain
17. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Adaptations
Emigration
Geothermal energy
Omnivore
18. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Grains
Ecology
Food web
Efficiency
19. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Natural selection
Bar graph
Evaporation
Food chain
20. Leaving a population
Limiting factor
Emigration
Pie graph
Precipitation
21. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Malnutrition
Fossil fuel
Immigration
22. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Environmental issue
Precipitation
Temperature
Water cycle
23. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Greenhouse effect
Green revolution
Abiotic factor
Experimental error
24. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Water cycle
Secondary succession
Non-biodegradable
Control Group
25. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Extinction
Poaching
Precipitation
26. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Community
human error
Omnivore
Agriculture Revolution
27. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Pie graph
Groundwater
Control Group
Climate
28. The largest population that an area can support
Species
Predation
Primary succession
Carrying capacity
29. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Prey
Ecological footprint
Recyclable
Natural selection
30. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Omnivore
Experimental Groups
Recyclable
31. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Nitrogen fixation
Malnutrition
Pie graph
Sustainability
32. A consumer that eats only animals
Natural Resource
Carnivore
Estuary
Keystone species
33. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Parasitism
Natural resource
Tragedy of the commons
Environmental issue
34. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Succession
Biome
Dispersal
Parasite
35. All the different populations that live together in an area
Succession
Natural selection
Community
Consumer
36. The variable that you manipulate
Niche
Ecological footprint
Decomposer
Independent variable
37. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Evaporation
Nonrecyclable
Symbiosis
Estuary
38. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Renewable resource
Grains
Ecosystem
Groundwater
39. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Herbivore
Fossil fuel
Ecological footprint
Selective cutting
40. Organism that is killed
human error
Control Group
Experimental error
Prey
41. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Groundwater
Precipitation
Food chain
Host
42. Possible to use again
Pioneer species
Recyclable
Host
Fossil fuel
43. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Carrying capacity
Hunters and Gatherers
Renewable resources
Fossil fuel
44. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Mutualism
Habitat
Global warming
45. Mass destruction of most species
Malnutrition
Agriculture
Nitrogen fixation
Mass extinctions
46. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Habitat
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental Science
Consumer
47. Moving into a population
Groundwater
Food web
Immigration
Non-biodegradable
48. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Green revolution
Ecological footprint
Keystone species
Fossil fuel
49. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Abiotic factor
Scavenger
Limiting factor
Food web
50. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Parasitism
Ecological footprint
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Population