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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Nitrogen fixation
Depleted
Adaptations
Dependent variable
2. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Ecology
Subsistence farmers
Biodegradable
Ecosystem
3. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Keystone species
Cost benefit analysis
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Experimental error
4. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Grains
Evaporation
Sustainability
5. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Biodiversity
Yield
Endangered species
Ecosystem
6. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Non-biodegradable
Host
Natural resource
Major food nutrients
7. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Diet
Cost benefit analysis
Geothermal energy
Biodiversity
8. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Mass extinctions
Natural selection
Condensation
Population
9. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Community
Primary succession
Succession
Predation
10. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Fossil fuel
Famine
Nonrecyclable
Growth rate
11. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Temperature
Poaching
Groundwater
Habitat
12. A chart with bars
Environmental Science
Yield
Population
Bar graph
13. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Agriculture Revolution
Population
Environmental issue
Natural selection
14. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Famine
Water cycle
Estuary
15. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Biome
Pollution
Efficiency
16. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Major food nutrients
Estuary
Evaporation
Nonrenewable resource
17. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Biodiversity
Consumer
Nonrenewable resource
Developed countries
18. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Precipitation
Tragedy of the commons
Pollution
Condensation
19. Organism that is killed
Food chain
Environmental Science
Prey
Biotic factor
20. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Pollution
Nonrenewable resource
Predator
21. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Column Graph
Limiting factor
Predation
Pollution
22. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Fossil fuel
Yield
Nonrenewable resource
23. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Nitrogen fixation
Depleted
Yield
Niche
24. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Host
Hunters and Gatherers
Agriculture Revolution
25. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Developed countries
Sustainability
Industrial Revolution
Nitrogen fixation
26. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Estuary
Biodegradable
Scavenger
27. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Agriculture
Climate
Efficiency
Pioneer species
28. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Diet
Selective cutting
Extinction
Natural Resource
29. The amount of food production in a given area
Cost benefit analysis
Predation
Yield
Limiting factor
30. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Tragedy of the commons
Poaching
Symbiosis
Major food nutrients
31. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Geothermal energy
Biome
Industrial Revolution
32. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Scatter graph
Competition
Pie graph
Column Graph
33. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Independent variable
Omnivore
Ecological footprint
Biodiversity
34. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Subsistence farmers
Population
Parasite
35. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Secondary succession
Pioneer species
Abiotic factor
36. The effect of the IV
Ecosystem
Producer
Sustainability
Dependent variable
37. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Biodegradable
Greenhouse effect
Secondary succession
Commensalism
38. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Agriculture Revolution
Herbivore
Scatter graph
Condensation
39. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Threatened species
Supply and demand
Niche
Column Graph
40. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Data table
Biodiversity
Carrying capacity
41. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Tragedy of the commons
Habitat
Food web
human error
42. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Carnivore
Herbivore
Commensalism
43. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Community
Ecological footprint
Natural selection
Experimental Groups
44. The number of different species in a given area
Subsistence farmers
Biodiversity
Renewable resource
Succession
45. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Diet
Energy conservation
Natural resource
46. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Line graph
Green revolution
Ecosystem
Biodegradable
47. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Predation
Renewable resource
Environmental Science
Secondary succession
48. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Natural Resource
Population
Temperature
Biotic factor
49. Leaving a population
Selective cutting
Yield
Emigration
Adaptations
50. Heat from the Earth's interior
Developing countries
Geothermal energy
Nonrecyclable
Natural Resource