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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Predation
Temperature
Mass extinctions
Ecosystem
2. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Supply and demand
Famine
Natural resource
3. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Pollution
Predation
Environmental issue
Estuary
4. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Independent variable
Biodegradable
Column Graph
Major food nutrients
5. The number of different species in an area
Malnutrition
Biodiversity
Prey
Nonrenewable resource
6. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Carnivore
Niche
Limiting factor
7. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Biodiversity
Environmental issue
Nonrenewable resource
Worlds 5 Main Foods
8. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Environmental issue
Grains
Energy conservation
Ecosystem
9. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Competition
Biotic factor
Sustainability
Tragedy of the commons
10. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Pie graph
Condensation
Adaptations
Groundwater
11. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Non-biodegradable
Energy conservation
Dependent variable
12. Leaving a population
Emigration
Renewable resource
Famine
Biodegradable
13. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Adaptations
Scavenger
Risk assessment
14. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Pioneer species
Depleted
Competition
Immigration
15. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Selective cutting
Biome
Estuary
16. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Pie graph
Threatened species
Competition
Renewable resource
17. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Herbivore
Control Group
Secondary succession
Famine
18. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Scatter graph
Biotic factor
Groundwater
19. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Risk assessment
Biotic factor
Prey
Supply and demand
20. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Fossil fuel
Nonrenewable resource
Primary succession
21. Possible to use again
Immigration
Recyclable
Population
Consumer
22. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Carrying capacity
Nitrogen fixation
Species
23. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Geothermal energy
Major food nutrients
Natural selection
Predation
24. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Poaching
Precipitation
Line graph
Greenhouse effect
25. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Extinction
Growth rate
Worlds 5 Main Foods
26. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Yield
Independent variable
Symbiosis
27. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Mass extinctions
Commensalism
Host
Environmental Science
28. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Renewable resource
Endangered species
Depleted
Sustainability
29. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Habitat
Independent variable
Mass extinctions
30. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Immigration
Famine
Water cycle
31. The practice of reducing energy use
Nonrenewable resource
Biodiversity
Energy conservation
Secondary succession
32. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Precipitation
Risk assessment
Food web
Mass extinctions
33. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Control Group
Ecology
Nonrenewable resource
Water cycle
34. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Limiting factor
Keystone species
Global warming
35. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Bar graph
Food chain
Biotic factor
36. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Adaptations
Pollution
Limiting factor
37. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Nonrenewable resource
Industrial Revolution
Developed countries
Depleted
38. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Industrial Revolution
Scatter graph
Omnivore
Ecosystem
39. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Global warming
Fossil fuel
Adaptations
40. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Diet
Subsistence farmers
Nonrecyclable
Biodegradable
41. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Parasitism
Host
Biome
Predator
42. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Pioneer species
Threatened species
Keystone species
Carnivore
43. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Climate
Commensalism
Nonrenewable resource
Population
44. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Independent variable
Immigration
Species
Malnutrition
45. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Niche
Endangered species
Estuary
Diet
46. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
human error
Parasitism
Carrying capacity
47. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Biodiversity
Column Graph
Groundwater
Scavenger
48. The variable that you manipulate
Developed countries
Parasite
Independent variable
Column Graph
49. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Carrying capacity
Climate
Food chain
Famine
50. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Biodiversity
Symbiosis
Growth rate
Grains
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