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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Precipitation
Food chain
Growth rate
2. All the different populations that live together in an area
Ecology
Growth rate
Species
Community
3. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Famine
Dispersal
Immigration
Food chain
4. Something that breaks down into soil
Recyclable
Emigration
Yield
Biodegradable
5. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Biodegradable
Bar graph
Water cycle
6. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Dependent variable
Bar graph
Secondary succession
7. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Yield
Industrial Revolution
Environmental issue
Subsistence farmers
8. A consumer that eats only plants
Parasite
Abiotic factor
Herbivore
Precipitation
9. Anything that harms an organism
Omnivore
Parasite
Efficiency
Pollution
10. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Yield
Sustainability
Agriculture Revolution
Threatened species
11. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Consumer
Abiotic factor
Supply and demand
12. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Habitat
Biome
13. An organism that can make it's own food
Renewable resource
Population
Producer
Natural resource
14. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Endangered species
Food chain
Decomposer
15. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Predator
Limiting factor
Poaching
16. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Endangered species
Succession
Malnutrition
17. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Carnivore
Cost benefit analysis
Abiotic factor
18. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Depleted
Agriculture Revolution
Biodiversity
19. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Omnivore
Biodiversity
Renewable resource
Consumer
20. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Adaptations
Environmental issue
Non-biodegradable
21. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Food web
Tragedy of the commons
Risk assessment
Decomposer
22. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Sustainability
Energy conservation
Evaporation
23. Heat from the Earth's interior
Producer
Emigration
Geothermal energy
Diet
24. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Symbiosis
Environmental Science
Limiting factor
Prey
25. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Adaptations
Commensalism
Developed countries
Species
26. All the members of one species in a particular area
Data table
Population
Evaporation
Independent variable
27. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Bar graph
Limiting factor
Condensation
28. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Biome
Grains
Nonrenewable resource
29. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Commensalism
Efficiency
Sustainability
Pie graph
30. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Line graph
Subsistence farmers
Estuary
Adaptations
31. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Environmental Science
Developing countries
Omnivore
Supply and demand
32. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Adaptations
Biodiversity
Nonrenewable resource
33. Mistake in following procedure
Biodegradable
Groundwater
human error
Habitat
34. Mass destruction of most species
Symbiosis
Commensalism
Mass extinctions
Growth rate
35. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Predator
Climate
Developed countries
Natural resource
36. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Carrying capacity
Symbiosis
Dependent variable
Column Graph
37. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Poaching
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
38. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Hunters and Gatherers
Commensalism
Mutualism
Cost benefit analysis
39. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Natural resource
Subsistence farmers
Column Graph
Climate
40. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Bar graph
Immigration
Condensation
41. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Data table
Geothermal energy
human error
Agriculture Revolution
42. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Dependent variable
Line graph
Ecological footprint
Biotic factor
43. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Competition
Grains
Nonrenewable resource
Depleted
44. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Natural resource
Industrial Revolution
Developing countries
Natural selection
45. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Geothermal energy
Agriculture
Endangered species
Yield
46. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Scavenger
Independent variable
Predation
Secondary succession
47. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Condensation
Green revolution
Extinction
Mutualism
48. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Growth rate
Symbiosis
Famine
Developed countries
49. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Emigration
Temperature
Natural selection
Energy conservation
50. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Evaporation
Dispersal
Host
Producer