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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Condensation
Environmental Science
Biodegradable
Column Graph
2. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Extinction
Agriculture
Recyclable
Herbivore
3. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Climate
Parasite
Predation
4. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Recyclable
Renewable resources
Natural Resource
Pollution
5. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Commensalism
Threatened species
Efficiency
Supply and demand
6. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Groundwater
Control Group
Dispersal
Predator
7. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Biodiversity
Hunters and Gatherers
Geothermal energy
Ecological footprint
8. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Fossil fuel
Tragedy of the commons
Host
9. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Subsistence farmers
Symbiosis
Precipitation
10. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Producer
Green revolution
Malnutrition
Industrial Revolution
11. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Decomposer
Immigration
Agriculture
Climate
12. The amount of food production in a given area
Ecology
Scatter graph
Yield
Pie graph
13. Possible to use again
Natural selection
Recyclable
Evaporation
Renewable resource
14. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Energy conservation
Food web
Developing countries
15. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Decomposer
Poaching
Host
Carrying capacity
16. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Selective cutting
Herbivore
Renewable resources
Greenhouse effect
17. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Competition
human error
Bar graph
18. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Ecology
Host
Agriculture Revolution
Succession
19. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Immigration
Experimental Groups
Grains
20. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Ecology
Cost benefit analysis
Experimental error
Nonrenewable resource
21. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Pioneer species
Environmental issue
Host
Poaching
22. The effect of the IV
Subsistence farmers
Niche
Commensalism
Dependent variable
23. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Carnivore
Non-biodegradable
Pioneer species
Depleted
24. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Developed countries
Non-biodegradable
Predator
Condensation
25. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Yield
Keystone species
Grains
26. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Decomposer
Pie graph
Omnivore
Consumer
27. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Agriculture Revolution
Scavenger
Malnutrition
28. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Competition
Niche
Mass extinctions
29. Leaving a population
Emigration
Symbiosis
Growth rate
Endangered species
30. All the different populations that live together in an area
Biodiversity
Parasite
Community
Biodegradable
31. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Limiting factor
Tragedy of the commons
human error
32. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Adaptations
Secondary succession
Bar graph
Water cycle
33. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Groundwater
Selective cutting
Temperature
Keystone species
34. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Subsistence farmers
Immigration
Non-biodegradable
35. All the members of one species in a particular area
Environmental Science
Predation
Population
Abiotic factor
36. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Biotic factor
Sustainability
Temperature
Environmental issue
37. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Bar graph
Parasitism
Consumer
Poaching
38. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Ecological footprint
Fossil fuel
Grains
Dependent variable
39. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Experimental error
Predation
Carnivore
Greenhouse effect
40. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Commensalism
Estuary
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodegradable
41. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Biodegradable
Fossil fuel
Environmental issue
Predator
42. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Nonrenewable resource
human error
Sustainability
Primary succession
43. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Depleted
Decomposer
Species
Nonrecyclable
44. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Food chain
Precipitation
Cost benefit analysis
Depleted
45. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Nonrenewable resource
Biodiversity
Niche
Natural selection
46. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Adaptations
Industrial Revolution
Global warming
Grains
47. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Condensation
Food chain
Mutualism
Prey
48. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Geothermal energy
Biotic factor
Biodegradable
Habitat
49. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Nonrenewable resource
human error
Temperature
50. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Condensation
Environmental issue
Mass extinctions
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