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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Commensalism
Bar graph
Nonrenewable resource
Predator
2. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Precipitation
Niche
Climate
Secondary succession
3. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Industrial Revolution
Famine
Parasite
Predation
4. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Biodegradable
Ecological footprint
Renewable resource
Biodiversity
5. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Host
Succession
Pie graph
Immigration
6. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Biodegradable
Growth rate
Major food nutrients
Groundwater
7. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Predator
Fossil fuel
Species
Renewable resource
8. Flaw in design of procedure
Adaptations
Industrial Revolution
Experimental error
Threatened species
9. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Natural Resource
Food web
Nonrenewable resource
10. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Renewable resource
Famine
Water cycle
Endangered species
11. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Producer
Food chain
Grains
12. Something that breaks down into soil
Competition
Biodegradable
Cost benefit analysis
Renewable resource
13. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Scavenger
Population
Habitat
14. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Risk assessment
Experimental error
Parasitism
Scavenger
15. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Community
Subsistence farmers
Nonrecyclable
Renewable resource
16. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Environmental Science
Secondary succession
Threatened species
17. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Nonrenewable resource
Yield
Limiting factor
human error
18. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Green revolution
Efficiency
Fossil fuel
Predation
19. Resources supplied by nature
Developed countries
Natural Resource
Recyclable
Ecology
20. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Scatter graph
Greenhouse effect
Secondary succession
Developed countries
21. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Depleted
Environmental issue
Agriculture Revolution
Herbivore
22. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Groundwater
Poaching
Data table
Prey
23. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Niche
Host
Succession
24. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Predation
Predator
Prey
25. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Renewable resources
Risk assessment
human error
26. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Keystone species
Herbivore
Primary succession
Developing countries
27. Heat from the Earth's interior
Competition
Geothermal energy
human error
Poaching
28. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Prey
Food web
Symbiosis
Keystone species
29. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Yield
Estuary
Omnivore
Secondary succession
30. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Hunters and Gatherers
Commensalism
Famine
Environmental Science
31. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Line graph
Pie graph
Habitat
Geothermal energy
32. A consumer that eats only plants
Column Graph
Herbivore
Sustainability
Environmental Science
33. The number of different species in a given area
Malnutrition
Biodiversity
Biodegradable
Developed countries
34. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Green revolution
Non-biodegradable
Data table
Temperature
35. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Consumer
Species
Major food nutrients
Precipitation
36. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Commensalism
Subsistence farmers
Natural resource
Agriculture
37. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Developing countries
Natural selection
Agriculture Revolution
Prey
38. Anything that harms an organism
Biodiversity
Pollution
Ecological footprint
human error
39. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Famine
Extinction
Energy conservation
Precipitation
40. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Global warming
Risk assessment
Nonrecyclable
Host
41. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Natural resource
Natural Resource
Famine
42. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Competition
Recyclable
Selective cutting
Extinction
43. All the different populations that live together in an area
Condensation
Threatened species
Competition
Community
44. A living part of an organism's habitat
Decomposer
Natural selection
Biodegradable
Biotic factor
45. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Water cycle
Extinction
Cost benefit analysis
Threatened species
46. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Yield
Poaching
Renewable resources
47. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Environmental issue
Temperature
Condensation
Famine
48. A consumer that eats only animals
Developing countries
Keystone species
Hunters and Gatherers
Carnivore
49. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Food web
Growth rate
Non-biodegradable
Biodegradable
50. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Carnivore
Pioneer species
Ecosystem
Risk assessment