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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The movement or organisms from one place to another
human error
Dispersal
Secondary succession
Biodegradable
2. Organism that does the killing
Temperature
Biodiversity
Parasite
Predator
3. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Geothermal energy
Nonrenewable resource
Natural selection
4. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Commensalism
Biodiversity
Renewable resource
Succession
5. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Herbivore
Parasite
Tragedy of the commons
6. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Food web
Carnivore
Predation
Industrial Revolution
7. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Control Group
Food chain
Experimental Groups
Global warming
8. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Threatened species
Host
Scavenger
Mass extinctions
9. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Risk assessment
Nitrogen fixation
Nonrenewable resource
10. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Carnivore
Parasitism
Succession
Natural selection
11. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Abiotic factor
Consumer
Biome
Developing countries
12. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Host
Grains
Risk assessment
Keystone species
13. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Host
Decomposer
Industrial Revolution
Depleted
14. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Biome
Threatened species
Agriculture Revolution
Ecosystem
15. The amount of food production in a given area
Nonrenewable resource
Scavenger
Yield
Developed countries
16. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Population
Decomposer
Limiting factor
Column Graph
17. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Mutualism
Herbivore
Species
Succession
18. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Biodegradable
Adaptations
Subsistence farmers
Experimental error
19. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Energy conservation
Estuary
Climate
20. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Data table
Nonrenewable resource
Producer
Decomposer
21. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Ecosystem
Renewable resources
Agriculture
Green revolution
22. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Threatened species
Habitat
Scatter graph
Poaching
23. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Producer
Experimental Groups
Developed countries
Poaching
24. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Producer
Ecological footprint
Yield
Adaptations
25. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Natural selection
Developed countries
Column Graph
Biodegradable
26. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Greenhouse effect
Symbiosis
Pie graph
Adaptations
27. Mass destruction of most species
Competition
Immigration
Mass extinctions
Efficiency
28. All the different populations that live together in an area
Prey
Community
Hunters and Gatherers
Line graph
29. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Community
Data table
Commensalism
Fossil fuel
30. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Ecology
Risk assessment
Extinction
Mutualism
31. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Host
Recyclable
Greenhouse effect
Abiotic factor
32. The rate of which a plant grows at
Efficiency
Global warming
Emigration
Growth rate
33. Flaw in design of procedure
Biodiversity
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
Evaporation
34. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Adaptations
Pioneer species
Parasitism
35. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Experimental Groups
Selective cutting
Dependent variable
Condensation
36. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Food web
Dispersal
Carnivore
37. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Developed countries
Competition
Pie graph
38. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Growth rate
Ecosystem
Diet
Green revolution
39. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Experimental error
Agriculture
Precipitation
Immigration
40. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Yield
Poaching
Endangered species
Food chain
41. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Parasite
Risk assessment
Pioneer species
Natural selection
42. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Major food nutrients
Hunters and Gatherers
Temperature
Species
43. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Non-biodegradable
Mutualism
Developing countries
Endangered species
44. Something that breaks down into soil
Natural resource
Carnivore
Biodegradable
Food web
45. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Scavenger
Yield
Experimental error
Environmental issue
46. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Habitat
Food web
Grains
Independent variable
47. A relationship in which both species benefit
Prey
Dispersal
Mutualism
Mass extinctions
48. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Herbivore
Scatter graph
Water cycle
Environmental Science
49. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Evaporation
Prey
Extinction
50. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Pie graph
Climate
Fossil fuel
Host