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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Industrial Revolution
Community
Water cycle
Biodegradable
2. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Emigration
Renewable resources
Biodiversity
3. Organism that is killed
Prey
Tragedy of the commons
Sustainability
Control Group
4. Something that breaks down into soil
Ecosystem
Renewable resources
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
5. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Pioneer species
Depleted
Nitrogen fixation
Data table
6. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Abiotic factor
Community
Food web
Secondary succession
7. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental issue
Environmental Science
Parasite
Line graph
8. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Subsistence farmers
Scatter graph
Biotic factor
Competition
9. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Predator
Herbivore
Habitat
Subsistence farmers
10. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Estuary
Biodiversity
Natural resource
Depleted
11. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Green revolution
Developed countries
Primary succession
Pioneer species
12. Flaw in design of procedure
Diet
Nonrenewable resource
Experimental error
Pie graph
13. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
Immigration
Predation
14. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Recyclable
Green revolution
Nitrogen fixation
15. The first species to populate the area
Abiotic factor
Consumer
Pioneer species
Emigration
16. The effect of the IV
Scatter graph
Grains
Dependent variable
Poaching
17. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Major food nutrients
Renewable resources
Natural resource
18. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Green revolution
Experimental Groups
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Column Graph
19. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Parasite
Estuary
Energy conservation
Geothermal energy
20. The number of different species in a given area
Natural resource
Biodiversity
Temperature
Environmental issue
21. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Mass extinctions
Groundwater
Supply and demand
Species
22. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Consumer
Green revolution
Biodiversity
23. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Water cycle
Developed countries
Predator
Symbiosis
24. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Line graph
Recyclable
Experimental error
Host
25. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Limiting factor
Predation
Omnivore
Precipitation
26. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Predator
Poaching
Biodegradable
Endangered species
27. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Adaptations
Omnivore
Ecosystem
28. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Natural resource
Parasite
Scatter graph
Evaporation
29. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Food web
Population
Bar graph
Green revolution
30. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Nonrecyclable
Biodegradable
Famine
Pie graph
31. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Risk assessment
Competition
Extinction
Immigration
32. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Pollution
Sustainability
Condensation
33. Heat from the Earth's interior
Geothermal energy
Pioneer species
human error
Environmental Science
34. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Agriculture
Supply and demand
Experimental Groups
35. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Food chain
Selective cutting
Food web
36. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Depleted
Community
Biodegradable
Diet
37. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Commensalism
Ecology
Risk assessment
38. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Yield
Secondary succession
Natural selection
Column Graph
39. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Ecology
Scavenger
Secondary succession
Green revolution
40. Leaving a population
Fossil fuel
Tragedy of the commons
Host
Emigration
41. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Developing countries
Evaporation
Water cycle
Groundwater
42. The largest population that an area can support
Tragedy of the commons
Scavenger
Renewable resources
Carrying capacity
43. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Succession
Natural Resource
Poaching
Nonrenewable resource
44. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Natural Resource
Consumer
Diet
Species
45. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Natural Resource
Greenhouse effect
Efficiency
Depleted
46. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Growth rate
Renewable resource
Environmental Science
Parasite
47. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Environmental issue
Pioneer species
Immigration
48. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Condensation
human error
Limiting factor
Grains
49. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Species
Limiting factor
Growth rate
Ecosystem
50. Moving into a population
Immigration
Succession
Threatened species
Nonrenewable resource
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