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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Something that breaks down into soil
Data table
Adaptations
Biodegradable
Predation
2. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Experimental error
Habitat
Secondary succession
Control Group
3. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Evaporation
Pie graph
Estuary
Precipitation
4. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Subsistence farmers
Adaptations
Environmental Science
Ecological footprint
5. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Independent variable
Natural resource
Biotic factor
Prey
6. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Host
Natural selection
Agriculture Revolution
7. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Renewable resource
Global warming
Population
Energy conservation
8. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Host
Adaptations
Commensalism
9. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Green revolution
Estuary
Biome
Major food nutrients
10. The number of different species in an area
Hunters and Gatherers
Species
Threatened species
Biodiversity
11. All the members of one species in a particular area
Succession
Population
Habitat
Famine
12. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Dependent variable
Competition
Subsistence farmers
13. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Species
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Energy conservation
14. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Extinction
Global warming
Dependent variable
Estuary
15. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Dependent variable
Greenhouse effect
Scavenger
Biodegradable
16. A relationship in which both species benefit
Condensation
Agriculture Revolution
Climate
Mutualism
17. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Developed countries
Dispersal
Dependent variable
18. Flaw in design of procedure
Decomposer
Biome
Nonrecyclable
Experimental error
19. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Adaptations
Grains
Commensalism
20. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Symbiosis
Depleted
Energy conservation
21. Heat from the Earth's interior
Poaching
Nonrecyclable
Species
Geothermal energy
22. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Threatened species
Food web
Efficiency
23. An organism that can make it's own food
Host
Condensation
Producer
Supply and demand
24. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Non-biodegradable
Ecological footprint
Water cycle
25. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Mutualism
Climate
Estuary
Omnivore
26. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Developing countries
Sustainability
Prey
27. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Nonrenewable resource
Line graph
Fossil fuel
28. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Independent variable
Hunters and Gatherers
Column Graph
29. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Efficiency
Industrial Revolution
Competition
Pioneer species
30. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Renewable resource
Succession
Pie graph
Limiting factor
31. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Greenhouse effect
Food web
Supply and demand
Carrying capacity
32. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Extinction
Nitrogen fixation
Estuary
Recyclable
33. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Climate
Bar graph
Line graph
Nitrogen fixation
34. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Endangered species
Industrial Revolution
Immigration
35. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Renewable resource
Nonrenewable resource
Cost benefit analysis
36. Organism that is killed
Scavenger
Water cycle
Environmental Science
Prey
37. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Endangered species
Biotic factor
Adaptations
38. Organism that does the killing
Biodiversity
Predator
Depleted
Estuary
39. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Efficiency
Poaching
Depleted
Column Graph
40. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Yield
Poaching
Parasite
Food web
41. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Water cycle
Abiotic factor
Supply and demand
Scatter graph
42. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Groundwater
Primary succession
Decomposer
43. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Condensation
Pioneer species
Agriculture Revolution
Natural Resource
44. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Famine
Supply and demand
Nonrenewable resource
Species
45. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Non-biodegradable
Renewable resources
Groundwater
Industrial Revolution
46. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Biodiversity
Climate
Line graph
47. A consumer that eats only animals
Energy conservation
Carnivore
Natural resource
Emigration
48. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Biotic factor
Secondary succession
Greenhouse effect
Abiotic factor
49. Mistake in following procedure
Geothermal energy
human error
Diet
Limiting factor
50. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Geothermal energy
Adaptations
Habitat