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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Estuary
Poaching
Supply and demand
Predator
2. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Supply and demand
human error
Cost benefit analysis
Line graph
3. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Food web
Keystone species
Decomposer
4. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Column Graph
Biodegradable
Secondary succession
Parasite
5. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Natural resource
Sustainability
Omnivore
6. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Natural resource
Condensation
Scatter graph
Bar graph
7. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Parasitism
Developing countries
Carrying capacity
Predator
8. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Growth rate
Renewable resource
Environmental issue
Developed countries
9. The number of different species in an area
Recyclable
Groundwater
Endangered species
Biodiversity
10. The practice of reducing energy use
Bar graph
Biodiversity
Energy conservation
Developed countries
11. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Bar graph
Limiting factor
Population
12. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Community
Column Graph
Species
Symbiosis
13. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Control Group
Efficiency
human error
14. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Water cycle
Non-biodegradable
Biodegradable
Niche
15. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Data table
Bar graph
Poaching
16. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Species
Efficiency
Recyclable
Nonrenewable resource
17. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Risk assessment
Food chain
Adaptations
18. Anything in the environment that is used by people
human error
Yield
Natural resource
Sustainability
19. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Climate
Mass extinctions
Secondary succession
Global warming
20. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Renewable resource
Environmental Science
Diet
Symbiosis
21. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Biodiversity
Scatter graph
Renewable resources
Food chain
22. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Malnutrition
Tragedy of the commons
Limiting factor
Food chain
23. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Population
Environmental issue
Bar graph
24. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Non-biodegradable
Environmental Science
Pie graph
25. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Experimental error
Predation
Fossil fuel
Food web
26. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Fossil fuel
Tragedy of the commons
Dispersal
Line graph
27. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Nonrenewable resource
Ecology
Predator
28. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Sustainability
Food chain
Biodiversity
29. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Natural Resource
Food web
Temperature
30. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
Evaporation
Climate
31. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Ecological footprint
Food web
Biome
32. The amount of food production in a given area
Scavenger
Yield
Extinction
Omnivore
33. Resources supplied by nature
Tragedy of the commons
Carrying capacity
Carnivore
Natural Resource
34. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Data table
Extinction
Estuary
Natural resource
35. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Scavenger
Estuary
Producer
Endangered species
36. The first species to populate the area
Estuary
Keystone species
Pioneer species
Nonrecyclable
37. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Predator
Mutualism
Efficiency
Commensalism
38. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Food web
Consumer
Decomposer
Famine
39. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Mutualism
Predation
Recyclable
Temperature
40. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Yield
Grains
Agriculture Revolution
Biodegradable
41. A relationship in which both species benefit
Endangered species
Carrying capacity
Mutualism
Producer
42. The largest population that an area can support
Depleted
Experimental error
Famine
Carrying capacity
43. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Abiotic factor
Habitat
Climate
Host
44. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Energy conservation
Herbivore
Scavenger
Nonrenewable resource
45. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Non-biodegradable
Poaching
Grains
46. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
human error
Nonrenewable resource
Experimental error
47. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Climate
Data table
Ecological footprint
Threatened species
48. Organism that is killed
Control Group
Grains
Biodegradable
Prey
49. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Primary succession
Cost benefit analysis
Greenhouse effect
50. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Herbivore
Poaching
Biome
Predator