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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Line graph
Consumer
Pollution
Natural resource
2. The amount of food production in a given area
Major food nutrients
Yield
Limiting factor
Ecosystem
3. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Decomposer
Competition
Bar graph
4. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Developed countries
Developing countries
Independent variable
Host
5. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Famine
Scavenger
Dependent variable
Succession
6. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Biodiversity
Global warming
Food web
7. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Estuary
Niche
Nonrenewable resource
Data table
8. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Depleted
Nonrenewable resource
Habitat
Energy conservation
9. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Ecosystem
Mutualism
Green revolution
10. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Nitrogen fixation
Data table
Greenhouse effect
Limiting factor
11. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Green revolution
Famine
Line graph
Ecological footprint
12. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Efficiency
Experimental error
Biodiversity
13. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Parasitism
Famine
Scatter graph
Energy conservation
14. The largest population that an area can support
Pollution
Carrying capacity
Decomposer
Temperature
15. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Parasitism
Malnutrition
Biotic factor
Hunters and Gatherers
16. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Food web
human error
Pioneer species
17. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Nonrenewable resource
Renewable resource
Malnutrition
Climate
18. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Natural Resource
Global warming
Column Graph
Grains
19. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Symbiosis
Ecology
Grains
Carnivore
20. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Prey
Species
Natural resource
Threatened species
21. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Major food nutrients
Commensalism
Parasite
Environmental Science
22. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Commensalism
Precipitation
Consumer
Temperature
23. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Selective cutting
Poaching
Mutualism
24. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Predation
Malnutrition
Decomposer
25. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Grains
Estuary
Commensalism
Experimental error
26. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Experimental Groups
Climate
Developing countries
Decomposer
27. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Temperature
Malnutrition
Natural resource
Depleted
28. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Famine
Energy conservation
Symbiosis
Green revolution
29. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Agriculture
Decomposer
Nonrecyclable
Adaptations
30. Flaw in design of procedure
Evaporation
Temperature
Ecological footprint
Experimental error
31. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Mutualism
Independent variable
Experimental Groups
Developed countries
32. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Poaching
Consumer
Line graph
Secondary succession
33. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Groundwater
Fossil fuel
Symbiosis
human error
34. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Risk assessment
Consumer
Agriculture Revolution
35. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nonrenewable resource
Ecological footprint
Nitrogen fixation
Tragedy of the commons
36. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Parasite
Ecological footprint
Nonrecyclable
Groundwater
37. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Pollution
Symbiosis
Producer
38. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Efficiency
Tragedy of the commons
Environmental Science
39. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Control Group
Carrying capacity
Bar graph
Food chain
40. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Pollution
Secondary succession
Biodiversity
41. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Population
Malnutrition
Ecology
42. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Diet
Commensalism
Renewable resources
Parasite
43. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Biodegradable
Host
Data table
Pioneer species
44. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Consumer
Scavenger
Species
Condensation
45. Heat from the Earth's interior
Growth rate
Estuary
Geothermal energy
Biome
46. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Nonrecyclable
Efficiency
Ecology
47. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Biodegradable
Poaching
Natural selection
Geothermal energy
48. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Yield
Malnutrition
Omnivore
Nonrenewable resource
49. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Pie graph
Niche
Renewable resource
Data table
50. Organism that is killed
Biodiversity
Prey
Environmental issue
Line graph