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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
Water cycle
Biodiversity
Nonrenewable resource
Prey
2. The practice of reducing energy use
Limiting factor
Energy conservation
Extinction
Famine
3. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Population
Selective cutting
Habitat
Diet
4. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Experimental error
Bar graph
Biodiversity
5. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Secondary succession
Agriculture
Emigration
6. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Ecology
Mass extinctions
Biodegradable
Biotic factor
7. A chart with bars
Mass extinctions
Bar graph
Herbivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
8. The amount of food production in a given area
Dispersal
Yield
Omnivore
Dependent variable
9. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Emigration
Sustainability
Symbiosis
Cost benefit analysis
10. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Nitrogen fixation
Developing countries
Omnivore
Climate
11. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Developing countries
Agriculture Revolution
Condensation
Biotic factor
12. Organism that is killed
Prey
Green revolution
Symbiosis
Extinction
13. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Experimental Groups
Secondary succession
Developed countries
14. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Nitrogen fixation
Immigration
Pie graph
15. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Experimental error
Water cycle
Producer
16. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Biodiversity
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
Climate
17. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Subsistence farmers
Species
Fossil fuel
18. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Energy conservation
Biome
Experimental Groups
Limiting factor
19. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Abiotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
Keystone species
Renewable resources
20. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Succession
Biodiversity
Host
21. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Producer
Efficiency
Supply and demand
Renewable resources
22. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Nitrogen fixation
Developing countries
Condensation
Keystone species
23. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Experimental Groups
Carnivore
Groundwater
24. Resources supplied by nature
Limiting factor
Natural Resource
Temperature
Water cycle
25. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Experimental error
Secondary succession
Independent variable
Control Group
26. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Growth rate
Non-biodegradable
Risk assessment
Fossil fuel
27. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Developing countries
Renewable resources
Line graph
Natural resource
28. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Immigration
Experimental error
Biotic factor
Parasite
29. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Temperature
Nonrecyclable
Growth rate
30. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Natural resource
Groundwater
Adaptations
human error
31. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Ecosystem
Estuary
Developing countries
Efficiency
32. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Endangered species
Commensalism
Extinction
33. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Ecosystem
Renewable resource
Supply and demand
Major food nutrients
34. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Recyclable
Nonrecyclable
Column Graph
Consumer
35. All the members of one species in a particular area
Mutualism
Population
Agriculture Revolution
Competition
36. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Species
Industrial Revolution
Developed countries
Limiting factor
37. Organism that does the killing
Green revolution
Efficiency
Subsistence farmers
Predator
38. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Grains
Agriculture
Predator
Extinction
39. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Geothermal energy
Biome
Famine
Subsistence farmers
40. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Prey
Dependent variable
Secondary succession
Agriculture
41. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Fossil fuel
Energy conservation
Yield
42. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural resource
Primary succession
Decomposer
43. A consumer that eats only plants
Pie graph
Niche
Prey
Herbivore
44. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Line graph
Nitrogen fixation
Niche
45. The rate of which a plant grows at
Immigration
Diet
Growth rate
Food chain
46. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Symbiosis
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Threatened species
Condensation
47. Mass destruction of most species
Decomposer
Parasitism
Predation
Mass extinctions
48. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Species
Hunters and Gatherers
Bar graph
Efficiency
49. Leaving a population
Succession
Competition
Emigration
Malnutrition
50. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Natural resource
Poaching
Secondary succession
Nonrenewable resource