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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Habitat
Water cycle
Natural Resource
Natural selection
2. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Global warming
Nitrogen fixation
Grains
Nonrecyclable
3. All the members of one species in a particular area
Condensation
Parasite
Host
Population
4. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Developed countries
Selective cutting
Succession
Independent variable
5. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Predation
Estuary
Climate
Host
6. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Diet
Dispersal
Environmental Science
Parasitism
7. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Predation
Precipitation
Parasite
8. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Natural resource
Species
Nonrecyclable
Diet
9. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Food chain
Predation
Environmental Science
Carrying capacity
10. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Independent variable
Control Group
Species
Tragedy of the commons
11. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Abiotic factor
Data table
Carrying capacity
12. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Prey
Secondary succession
Bar graph
Pie graph
13. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Energy conservation
Food chain
Secondary succession
Mutualism
14. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecosystem
Ecology
Renewable resource
Commensalism
15. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Growth rate
Predation
Abiotic factor
16. The effect of the IV
Subsistence farmers
Prey
Dependent variable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
17. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Dispersal
Non-biodegradable
Sustainability
18. Anything that harms an organism
Energy conservation
Producer
Pollution
human error
19. Flaw in design of procedure
Scatter graph
Predation
human error
Experimental error
20. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Predator
Tragedy of the commons
Efficiency
Greenhouse effect
21. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Environmental Science
Pie graph
Famine
Biodegradable
22. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Condensation
Experimental Groups
Producer
23. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Yield
Precipitation
Green revolution
Non-biodegradable
24. The number of different species in a given area
Limiting factor
Biodiversity
Condensation
Grains
25. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Natural selection
Threatened species
Climate
26. Resources supplied by nature
Limiting factor
Natural Resource
Agriculture Revolution
Recyclable
27. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Ecology
Recyclable
Food chain
Decomposer
28. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Biodegradable
Immigration
Symbiosis
29. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Risk assessment
Subsistence farmers
Biodiversity
Industrial Revolution
30. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Species
Niche
Symbiosis
Experimental Groups
31. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Limiting factor
Parasite
Column Graph
32. Heat from the Earth's interior
Green revolution
Geothermal energy
Decomposer
Renewable resource
33. A consumer that eats only animals
Scavenger
Mass extinctions
Carnivore
Food web
34. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Groundwater
Renewable resource
Nitrogen fixation
35. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Community
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Cost benefit analysis
Symbiosis
36. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Climate
Biome
Renewable resources
Competition
37. All the different populations that live together in an area
Temperature
Community
Cost benefit analysis
Primary succession
38. A consumer that eats only plants
Yield
Growth rate
Prey
Herbivore
39. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Commensalism
Geothermal energy
Control Group
Extinction
40. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Parasite
Growth rate
Natural resource
Ecology
41. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Climate
Developed countries
Scatter graph
Emigration
42. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Biome
Omnivore
human error
43. An organism that can make it's own food
Parasitism
Cost benefit analysis
Producer
Limiting factor
44. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Natural resource
Biome
Data table
Primary succession
45. Mass destruction of most species
Industrial Revolution
Decomposer
Mass extinctions
Natural resource
46. Something that breaks down into soil
Poaching
Prey
Efficiency
Biodegradable
47. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Groundwater
Succession
Nitrogen fixation
Dependent variable
48. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Carnivore
Risk assessment
Evaporation
Renewable resource
49. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Subsistence farmers
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Threatened species
Supply and demand
50. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Natural resource
Symbiosis
Scavenger
Biome