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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Natural selection
Groundwater
Cost benefit analysis
Food chain
2. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Producer
Food web
Abiotic factor
Parasite
3. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Predator
Renewable resources
Parasite
4. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Adaptations
Parasitism
Nonrenewable resource
Efficiency
5. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Natural Resource
Precipitation
Line graph
Cost benefit analysis
6. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Commensalism
Immigration
Primary succession
7. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Competition
Estuary
Carnivore
8. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Dependent variable
Scavenger
Evaporation
Pollution
9. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Mutualism
Developing countries
Pioneer species
Consumer
10. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Natural selection
Habitat
Extinction
Food web
11. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Biome
Cost benefit analysis
Symbiosis
Adaptations
12. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Hunters and Gatherers
Developed countries
Supply and demand
Renewable resources
13. A consumer that eats only plants
Industrial Revolution
Herbivore
Limiting factor
Adaptations
14. The rate of which a plant grows at
Abiotic factor
Green revolution
Growth rate
Consumer
15. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Species
Nonrecyclable
Primary succession
Greenhouse effect
16. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Depleted
Pollution
Bar graph
17. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Succession
Pie graph
Global warming
18. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Ecological footprint
Sustainability
Mass extinctions
Ecosystem
19. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Symbiosis
Estuary
Malnutrition
Greenhouse effect
20. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Biodiversity
Recyclable
Depleted
21. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Control Group
Evaporation
Carnivore
Herbivore
22. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Hunters and Gatherers
Nonrenewable resource
Scatter graph
23. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Climate
Efficiency
Agriculture
Non-biodegradable
24. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Nonrecyclable
Poaching
Biodiversity
Column Graph
25. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Biome
Line graph
Biodiversity
Hunters and Gatherers
26. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Primary succession
Control Group
Competition
Column Graph
27. A living part of an organism's habitat
Limiting factor
Biotic factor
Herbivore
Carrying capacity
28. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Nitrogen fixation
Supply and demand
Global warming
Keystone species
29. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Herbivore
Ecological footprint
Evaporation
Sustainability
30. All the different populations that live together in an area
Predation
Diet
Community
Natural Resource
31. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Secondary succession
Pie graph
Nonrenewable resource
Host
32. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Symbiosis
Greenhouse effect
Decomposer
Food web
33. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Climate
Primary succession
Food web
34. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Adaptations
Natural selection
Competition
Recyclable
35. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Adaptations
Greenhouse effect
Threatened species
Immigration
36. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Biotic factor
Environmental Science
Risk assessment
Commensalism
37. The effect of the IV
Carnivore
Limiting factor
Dependent variable
Agriculture
38. Mass destruction of most species
Symbiosis
Column Graph
Renewable resource
Mass extinctions
39. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Ecology
Ecosystem
Herbivore
40. The number of different species in an area
Line graph
Biodiversity
Geothermal energy
Independent variable
41. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Experimental Groups
Condensation
Diet
Independent variable
42. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Groundwater
Water cycle
Parasitism
Precipitation
43. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Threatened species
Column Graph
Pie graph
Data table
44. Mistake in following procedure
Biome
Hunters and Gatherers
Ecological footprint
human error
45. Leaving a population
Emigration
Producer
Carrying capacity
Diet
46. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Ecosystem
Condensation
Parasite
Non-biodegradable
47. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Mass extinctions
Tragedy of the commons
Ecological footprint
Succession
48. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Risk assessment
Nonrecyclable
Food chain
Secondary succession
49. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Pioneer species
Threatened species
Primary succession
Grains
50. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Developed countries
Experimental Groups
Herbivore