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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Carrying capacity
Supply and demand
Ecosystem
Symbiosis
2. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Renewable resource
Agriculture
Parasitism
3. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Food chain
Decomposer
Independent variable
Supply and demand
4. The variable that you manipulate
Natural Resource
Renewable resource
Community
Independent variable
5. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Herbivore
Developed countries
Geothermal energy
Consumer
6. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Primary succession
Food chain
Commensalism
Threatened species
7. All the different populations that live together in an area
Renewable resource
Mutualism
Community
Agriculture
8. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Green revolution
Sustainability
Ecosystem
Commensalism
9. Heat from the Earth's interior
Consumer
Geothermal energy
Ecology
Ecological footprint
10. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Tragedy of the commons
Prey
Cost benefit analysis
Habitat
11. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Selective cutting
Grains
Prey
Cost benefit analysis
12. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Prey
Environmental issue
Nonrenewable resource
Geothermal energy
13. Resources supplied by nature
Symbiosis
Biome
Tragedy of the commons
Natural Resource
14. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Mass extinctions
Groundwater
Biodegradable
Natural selection
15. Mistake in following procedure
Omnivore
Evaporation
human error
Greenhouse effect
16. A consumer that eats only animals
Keystone species
Carnivore
Renewable resource
Omnivore
17. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Carnivore
Prey
Data table
Scavenger
18. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Adaptations
Climate
Energy conservation
Greenhouse effect
19. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Pollution
Threatened species
Cost benefit analysis
Secondary succession
20. The amount of food production in a given area
Ecological footprint
Experimental error
Yield
Nonrecyclable
21. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Non-biodegradable
Developing countries
Extinction
Nitrogen fixation
22. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Nonrenewable resource
Pie graph
Geothermal energy
Famine
23. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Malnutrition
Competition
Predation
Food web
24. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Carrying capacity
Renewable resource
Renewable resources
Independent variable
25. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Nonrenewable resource
Decomposer
Habitat
Symbiosis
26. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Ecology
Nonrenewable resource
Precipitation
Malnutrition
27. Flaw in design of procedure
Nonrenewable resource
Agriculture
Experimental error
Dispersal
28. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Biodegradable
Parasite
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Evaporation
29. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Mass extinctions
Natural selection
Temperature
Precipitation
30. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Nitrogen fixation
Community
Keystone species
Industrial Revolution
31. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Precipitation
Natural resource
Biotic factor
Primary succession
32. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Limiting factor
Estuary
Natural Resource
Worlds 5 Main Foods
33. A living part of an organism's habitat
Line graph
Famine
Biotic factor
Industrial Revolution
34. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Renewable resources
Dependent variable
Habitat
Adaptations
35. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Supply and demand
Efficiency
Sustainability
Evaporation
36. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Host
Ecology
Succession
Herbivore
37. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Malnutrition
Primary succession
Global warming
Renewable resources
38. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Decomposer
Herbivore
Supply and demand
39. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Symbiosis
Cost benefit analysis
Greenhouse effect
40. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Parasitism
Famine
Niche
Extinction
41. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Keystone species
Major food nutrients
Subsistence farmers
Sustainability
42. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Decomposer
Groundwater
Herbivore
43. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Food web
Habitat
Dependent variable
Line graph
44. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Supply and demand
Diet
Scatter graph
Threatened species
45. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Adaptations
Developing countries
Keystone species
Climate
46. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Subsistence farmers
Condensation
Hunters and Gatherers
Secondary succession
47. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Ecological footprint
Biotic factor
Evaporation
48. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Mass extinctions
Line graph
Threatened species
49. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Predator
Temperature
Industrial Revolution
Prey
50. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Natural resource
Habitat
Environmental issue