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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Endangered species
Experimental error
Succession
Developed countries
2. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Biodegradable
Efficiency
Abiotic factor
Growth rate
3. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Environmental issue
Species
Nitrogen fixation
Biodiversity
4. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Natural Resource
Renewable resource
Pioneer species
Climate
5. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Carrying capacity
Renewable resources
Natural resource
Developing countries
6. An organism that can make it's own food
Dispersal
Dependent variable
Producer
Experimental error
7. Resources supplied by nature
Biome
Omnivore
Subsistence farmers
Natural Resource
8. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Evaporation
Estuary
Species
9. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Food chain
Non-biodegradable
Major food nutrients
10. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Data table
Poaching
Recyclable
Cost benefit analysis
11. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Carrying capacity
Green revolution
Nonrenewable resource
Habitat
12. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Subsistence farmers
Endangered species
Nonrenewable resource
13. The effect of the IV
Global warming
Grains
Dependent variable
Sustainability
14. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Consumer
Extinction
Pollution
Agriculture Revolution
15. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Food web
Growth rate
Agriculture
Predation
16. A living part of an organism's habitat
Diet
Dispersal
Biotic factor
Food chain
17. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Biodiversity
Mass extinctions
Keystone species
Agriculture Revolution
18. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Greenhouse effect
Renewable resources
Temperature
19. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Evaporation
Endangered species
Biodegradable
Parasite
20. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Decomposer
Adaptations
Biodegradable
21. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Emigration
Nitrogen fixation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
22. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Condensation
Global warming
Environmental Science
23. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Nonrenewable resource
Ecological footprint
Consumer
Tragedy of the commons
24. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Biodiversity
Producer
Food web
Column Graph
25. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Adaptations
Biotic factor
Selective cutting
Hunters and Gatherers
26. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Immigration
Keystone species
Limiting factor
27. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Abiotic factor
Agriculture Revolution
Niche
Prey
28. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Dependent variable
Abiotic factor
Dispersal
29. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Water cycle
Nonrecyclable
Grains
30. A consumer that eats only plants
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Population
Herbivore
Biodegradable
31. Organism that is killed
Environmental Science
Experimental Groups
Prey
Condensation
32. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Energy conservation
Biodiversity
Biome
33. The variable that you manipulate
Water cycle
Condensation
Natural resource
Independent variable
34. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Experimental error
Major food nutrients
Nonrenewable resource
35. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Greenhouse effect
Renewable resources
Habitat
36. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Dispersal
Environmental issue
Renewable resources
Consumer
37. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Hunters and Gatherers
Herbivore
Precipitation
Food chain
38. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Carnivore
Mutualism
Keystone species
Pie graph
39. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Non-biodegradable
Nitrogen fixation
Environmental Science
40. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Independent variable
Greenhouse effect
Ecological footprint
41. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Estuary
Adaptations
Major food nutrients
Independent variable
42. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Yield
Nonrecyclable
Succession
Developing countries
43. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Column Graph
Renewable resources
Ecology
Grains
44. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Grains
Condensation
Endangered species
45. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Symbiosis
Data table
Parasite
46. The number of different species in an area
Predation
Subsistence farmers
Species
Biodiversity
47. A chart with bars
Sustainability
Bar graph
Carnivore
Efficiency
48. The first species to populate the area
Fossil fuel
Commensalism
Pioneer species
Herbivore
49. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Biodiversity
Abiotic factor
Poaching
50. The rate of which a plant grows at
Precipitation
Growth rate
Control Group
Yield