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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A consumer that eats only animals
Estuary
Carnivore
Poaching
Herbivore
2. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Pollution
Consumer
Symbiosis
Cost benefit analysis
3. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Niche
Ecological footprint
Environmental issue
Line graph
4. Moving into a population
Biodegradable
Independent variable
Immigration
human error
5. The largest population that an area can support
Recyclable
Carrying capacity
Nonrenewable resource
Agriculture
6. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Recyclable
Species
Developed countries
Sustainability
7. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Column Graph
Ecosystem
Hunters and Gatherers
Independent variable
8. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Estuary
Habitat
Natural resource
Developing countries
9. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Nonrecyclable
Biodegradable
Symbiosis
10. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Niche
Groundwater
Agriculture Revolution
Major food nutrients
11. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Herbivore
Omnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Grains
12. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Endangered species
Fossil fuel
Diet
13. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Herbivore
Nonrenewable resource
Habitat
14. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Renewable resources
Herbivore
Agriculture
15. A living part of an organism's habitat
Ecology
Symbiosis
Biotic factor
Yield
16. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Geothermal energy
Climate
Extinction
17. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Developing countries
Experimental Groups
Biodiversity
Groundwater
18. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Efficiency
Subsistence farmers
Non-biodegradable
Dispersal
19. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Adaptations
Carrying capacity
Pioneer species
20. The amount of food production in a given area
Malnutrition
Parasitism
Subsistence farmers
Yield
21. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Green revolution
Groundwater
Food chain
22. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Symbiosis
Producer
Subsistence farmers
23. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Ecology
Major food nutrients
Water cycle
24. A relationship in which both species benefit
Producer
Mutualism
Dependent variable
Geothermal energy
25. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Malnutrition
human error
Consumer
26. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Grains
Agriculture Revolution
Carrying capacity
Consumer
27. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Fossil fuel
Decomposer
Pie graph
Natural selection
28. The rate of which a plant grows at
Estuary
Growth rate
Scavenger
Keystone species
29. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Limiting factor
Data table
Renewable resources
30. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Experimental error
Nonrenewable resource
Secondary succession
Pollution
31. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Predation
Geothermal energy
Threatened species
Abiotic factor
32. Organism that is killed
Mass extinctions
Parasitism
Experimental Groups
Prey
33. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Mass extinctions
Keystone species
Carrying capacity
Host
34. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Carnivore
Environmental issue
Consumer
Column Graph
35. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Depleted
Niche
Mutualism
Parasitism
36. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Climate
Famine
Yield
Parasitism
37. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Limiting factor
Depleted
Growth rate
Endangered species
38. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Control Group
Yield
Food chain
Ecological footprint
39. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
human error
Groundwater
Competition
Food chain
40. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Pie graph
Grains
Recyclable
41. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Parasite
Evaporation
Sustainability
Agriculture
42. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Predator
Diet
Host
Yield
43. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Green revolution
Depleted
Temperature
Community
44. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Scavenger
Pioneer species
Risk assessment
45. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Biodiversity
Pie graph
Experimental Groups
Environmental issue
46. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Sustainability
Experimental Groups
Habitat
Symbiosis
47. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Pioneer species
Diet
Malnutrition
48. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Food chain
Parasitism
Data table
Nitrogen fixation
49. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Independent variable
Ecological footprint
Keystone species
Biodiversity
50. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Pie graph
Scavenger
Depleted