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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The practice of reducing energy use
Green revolution
Mass extinctions
Energy conservation
Decomposer
2. Moving into a population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Immigration
Non-biodegradable
Habitat
3. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Scatter graph
Environmental issue
Greenhouse effect
Omnivore
4. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Nonrenewable resource
Limiting factor
Scavenger
Water cycle
5. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Industrial Revolution
Diet
Temperature
Line graph
6. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Major food nutrients
Diet
Species
7. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Omnivore
Experimental Groups
Tragedy of the commons
8. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Yield
Data table
Estuary
Experimental Groups
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
Tragedy of the commons
Poaching
Biodiversity
Growth rate
10. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Natural selection
Host
Grains
Column Graph
11. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Extinction
Nitrogen fixation
Condensation
Immigration
12. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Hunters and Gatherers
Global warming
Condensation
Scatter graph
13. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Dependent variable
Pollution
Primary succession
Limiting factor
14. Anything that harms an organism
Natural selection
Poaching
Biodegradable
Pollution
15. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Pie graph
Agriculture Revolution
Efficiency
Natural Resource
16. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Population
Threatened species
Biotic factor
17. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Diet
Abiotic factor
Ecology
18. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Scatter graph
Energy conservation
Precipitation
Niche
19. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Carrying capacity
Nonrecyclable
Selective cutting
Pioneer species
20. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Non-biodegradable
Mass extinctions
Evaporation
Yield
21. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Food chain
Cost benefit analysis
Geothermal energy
22. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Scavenger
Diet
Predator
Data table
23. Heat from the Earth's interior
Selective cutting
Nonrenewable resource
Geothermal energy
Greenhouse effect
24. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Biodiversity
Scavenger
Niche
Secondary succession
25. Organism that is killed
Developing countries
Experimental Groups
Prey
human error
26. All the different populations that live together in an area
Recyclable
Community
Non-biodegradable
Greenhouse effect
27. Leaving a population
Pie graph
Emigration
Biome
Nonrenewable resource
28. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Immigration
Renewable resource
Natural selection
Environmental Science
29. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Cost benefit analysis
Energy conservation
Host
Herbivore
30. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Adaptations
Growth rate
Predation
31. The amount of food production in a given area
Cost benefit analysis
Predator
Malnutrition
Yield
32. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Diet
Groundwater
Ecosystem
Parasitism
33. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Experimental Groups
Greenhouse effect
Mutualism
Food web
34. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Greenhouse effect
Secondary succession
Developed countries
Natural resource
35. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Food chain
Extinction
Recyclable
Agriculture Revolution
36. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Abiotic factor
Global warming
Efficiency
37. A chart with bars
Recyclable
Renewable resources
Bar graph
Secondary succession
38. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Condensation
Major food nutrients
Depleted
Mass extinctions
39. The number of different species in a given area
Biodegradable
Ecology
Pie graph
Biodiversity
40. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Groundwater
Grains
Scavenger
41. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Omnivore
Consumer
Cost benefit analysis
Pioneer species
42. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Adaptations
Precipitation
Green revolution
Scatter graph
43. An organism that can make it's own food
Experimental error
Global warming
Producer
Scavenger
44. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Column Graph
Ecosystem
Natural resource
Developing countries
45. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Supply and demand
Species
Endangered species
Geothermal energy
46. Mistake in following procedure
Dependent variable
human error
Niche
Succession
47. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Biome
Extinction
Geothermal energy
Pioneer species
48. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Species
Carnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Major food nutrients
49. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Natural resource
Subsistence farmers
Pioneer species
Threatened species
50. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Biotic factor
Biodegradable
Major food nutrients
Succession
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