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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Mass extinctions
Experimental Groups
Selective cutting
Ecosystem
2. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Poaching
Ecological footprint
Immigration
Supply and demand
3. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Limiting factor
Commensalism
Energy conservation
Pie graph
4. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Major food nutrients
Ecology
Non-biodegradable
Secondary succession
5. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Food web
Agriculture
Environmental issue
Adaptations
6. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Scavenger
Famine
Mutualism
Diet
7. A consumer that eats only animals
Biome
Carnivore
Consumer
Agriculture Revolution
8. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Global warming
Succession
Biodiversity
Commensalism
9. Moving into a population
Predator
Mass extinctions
Recyclable
Immigration
10. A chart with bars
Control Group
Mass extinctions
Geothermal energy
Bar graph
11. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Groundwater
Parasite
Global warming
Growth rate
12. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Biome
Developed countries
Endangered species
Agriculture Revolution
13. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Experimental error
Symbiosis
Climate
14. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Biodiversity
Scatter graph
Malnutrition
Evaporation
15. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Dependent variable
Nonrenewable resource
Extinction
Renewable resource
16. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Environmental Science
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Parasitism
17. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
human error
Food web
Hunters and Gatherers
Nonrenewable resource
18. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Extinction
Subsistence farmers
Major food nutrients
Diet
19. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Developed countries
Food chain
Scatter graph
20. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Commensalism
Natural resource
Data table
Energy conservation
21. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Developing countries
Biodiversity
Niche
Natural selection
22. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Threatened species
Environmental issue
Estuary
23. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Renewable resources
Temperature
Environmental issue
Pie graph
24. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Grains
Competition
Adaptations
Estuary
25. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Biotic factor
Greenhouse effect
Data table
Climate
26. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse effect
Tragedy of the commons
Omnivore
27. The practice of reducing energy use
Condensation
Depleted
Energy conservation
Adaptations
28. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Developed countries
Agriculture Revolution
Secondary succession
Scavenger
29. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Ecosystem
Food web
Succession
30. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Agriculture Revolution
Extinction
Supply and demand
31. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Biodegradable
Limiting factor
Scatter graph
32. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Pollution
Food web
Mass extinctions
Nonrecyclable
33. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Evaporation
Commensalism
Producer
Limiting factor
34. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Greenhouse effect
Pioneer species
Depleted
Threatened species
35. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Parasitism
Community
Predation
Habitat
36. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Carrying capacity
Risk assessment
Estuary
37. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Pollution
Ecological footprint
Parasite
38. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Recyclable
Immigration
Dependent variable
Fossil fuel
39. An organism that can make it's own food
Sustainability
Biodegradable
Producer
Dispersal
40. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Pioneer species
Recyclable
Commensalism
41. Organism that is killed
Prey
Ecology
Nonrecyclable
Parasite
42. The number of different species in an area
Industrial Revolution
Environmental issue
Biodiversity
Emigration
43. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Extinction
Agriculture Revolution
Adaptations
Food chain
44. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Population
Environmental Science
Extinction
Host
45. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Environmental Science
Experimental Groups
Line graph
Threatened species
46. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Natural Resource
Host
Efficiency
Control Group
47. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Biotic factor
Parasitism
Adaptations
Ecosystem
48. Heat from the Earth's interior
Food web
Niche
Parasite
Geothermal energy
49. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Symbiosis
Poaching
Selective cutting
Ecological footprint
50. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Dispersal
Pioneer species
Environmental Science
Nitrogen fixation