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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Emigration
Predator
Abiotic factor
Consumer
2. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Geothermal energy
Niche
Estuary
Poaching
3. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Column Graph
Non-biodegradable
Pioneer species
4. The first species to populate the area
Green revolution
Selective cutting
Pioneer species
Tragedy of the commons
5. Something that breaks down into soil
Nonrenewable resource
Supply and demand
Estuary
Biodegradable
6. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Abiotic factor
Extinction
Independent variable
Omnivore
7. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Line graph
Community
Developing countries
Nonrenewable resource
8. A consumer that eats only plants
Predation
Dependent variable
Herbivore
Pioneer species
9. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Recyclable
Temperature
Subsistence farmers
10. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Host
Famine
Pie graph
Experimental error
11. Flaw in design of procedure
Pioneer species
Omnivore
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
12. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Risk assessment
Independent variable
Decomposer
Environmental Science
13. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Control Group
Adaptations
Emigration
Experimental Groups
14. Moving into a population
Parasite
Immigration
Symbiosis
Condensation
15. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Omnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Dispersal
Extinction
16. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Depleted
Biome
Experimental Groups
Food web
17. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Poaching
Decomposer
Control Group
Immigration
18. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Global warming
Nonrenewable resource
Depleted
19. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Decomposer
Emigration
Data table
Endangered species
20. The variable that you manipulate
Omnivore
Independent variable
Parasite
Emigration
21. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Developed countries
Population
Malnutrition
22. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Malnutrition
Predator
Dependent variable
Species
23. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Scatter graph
Groundwater
Decomposer
Succession
24. Organism that is killed
Yield
Competition
Prey
Pollution
25. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Developed countries
Prey
Predator
26. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Green revolution
Hunters and Gatherers
Primary succession
27. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Natural resource
Yield
Biome
Malnutrition
28. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Bar graph
Pie graph
Estuary
Data table
29. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Niche
Ecology
Producer
Experimental error
30. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Carrying capacity
Scavenger
Condensation
Secondary succession
31. Organism that does the killing
Environmental issue
Predator
Diet
Poaching
32. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Food web
Biodiversity
Symbiosis
Pioneer species
33. The largest population that an area can support
Renewable resource
Limiting factor
Condensation
Carrying capacity
34. All the members of one species in a particular area
Ecosystem
Industrial Revolution
Groundwater
Population
35. Possible to use again
Bar graph
Competition
Recyclable
Natural selection
36. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Prey
Experimental error
Threatened species
Community
37. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Line graph
Niche
Threatened species
Decomposer
38. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Natural Resource
Decomposer
Predation
Primary succession
39. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Agriculture
Grains
Cost benefit analysis
Nitrogen fixation
40. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Scatter graph
Species
Temperature
Consumer
41. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Habitat
Biome
Limiting factor
42. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Evaporation
Symbiosis
Agriculture Revolution
Precipitation
43. A consumer that eats only animals
Community
Host
Carnivore
Adaptations
44. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Bar graph
Risk assessment
Column Graph
Agriculture Revolution
45. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Prey
Precipitation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Parasitism
46. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Primary succession
Abiotic factor
Global warming
Keystone species
47. A living part of an organism's habitat
Population
Mass extinctions
Global warming
Biotic factor
48. The amount of food production in a given area
Consumer
Yield
Renewable resources
Immigration
49. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Natural selection
Line graph
Carnivore
Pollution
50. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Predation
Major food nutrients
Column Graph
Supply and demand