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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Growth rate
Developing countries
Habitat
Experimental error
2. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Nonrenewable resource
Fossil fuel
Omnivore
Environmental Science
3. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Immigration
Habitat
Scavenger
4. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Food web
Evaporation
Predator
Mutualism
5. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Producer
Sustainability
Supply and demand
Worlds 5 Main Foods
6. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Precipitation
Data table
Food web
Agriculture Revolution
7. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Symbiosis
Biome
Fossil fuel
Renewable resources
8. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Greenhouse effect
Control Group
Diet
Population
9. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Parasitism
Developing countries
Food chain
10. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Nitrogen fixation
Cost benefit analysis
Consumer
Supply and demand
11. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Environmental issue
Grains
Endangered species
Habitat
12. The largest population that an area can support
Endangered species
Carnivore
Competition
Carrying capacity
13. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Bar graph
Recyclable
Non-biodegradable
14. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Biodegradable
Symbiosis
Parasitism
Worlds 5 Main Foods
15. The effect of the IV
Tragedy of the commons
Dependent variable
Carnivore
Developed countries
16. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Column Graph
Mutualism
Grains
Control Group
17. The first species to populate the area
Symbiosis
Secondary succession
Pioneer species
Renewable resources
18. The amount of food production in a given area
Biome
Scavenger
Food chain
Yield
19. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Risk assessment
Habitat
Niche
20. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Energy conservation
Natural resource
Decomposer
Diet
21. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Immigration
Agriculture
Temperature
Grains
22. Something that breaks down into soil
Precipitation
Predator
Prey
Biodegradable
23. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Supply and demand
Secondary succession
Nonrenewable resource
24. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Precipitation
Fossil fuel
Non-biodegradable
Estuary
25. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental issue
Tragedy of the commons
Malnutrition
26. Mistake in following procedure
Endangered species
human error
Greenhouse effect
Omnivore
27. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Depleted
Species
Limiting factor
Nonrenewable resource
28. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Green revolution
Succession
Niche
Poaching
29. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Recyclable
Renewable resource
Adaptations
Host
30. The variable that you manipulate
Malnutrition
Developing countries
Evaporation
Independent variable
31. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Parasite
Nonrenewable resource
Carnivore
Biome
32. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Growth rate
Non-biodegradable
Geothermal energy
Predator
33. Mass destruction of most species
Endangered species
Mass extinctions
human error
Decomposer
34. Possible to use again
Pollution
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Subsistence farmers
Recyclable
35. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Malnutrition
Environmental Science
Tragedy of the commons
Emigration
36. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Parasitism
Column Graph
Carnivore
Extinction
37. An organism that can make it's own food
Global warming
Column Graph
Limiting factor
Producer
38. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Renewable resource
Decomposer
Diet
Recyclable
39. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Food web
Evaporation
Biodegradable
Water cycle
40. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Population
Niche
Nonrecyclable
Biotic factor
41. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Prey
Biotic factor
Growth rate
Groundwater
42. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Pie graph
Industrial Revolution
Natural selection
43. The number of different species in a given area
Host
Environmental Science
Industrial Revolution
Biodiversity
44. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Primary succession
Population
Global warming
Ecosystem
45. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Endangered species
Symbiosis
Growth rate
46. Organism that does the killing
Tragedy of the commons
Predator
Line graph
Dependent variable
47. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Emigration
Green revolution
Ecology
Secondary succession
48. All the different populations that live together in an area
Natural resource
Community
Yield
Famine
49. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Succession
Control Group
Omnivore
Climate
50. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Secondary succession
Control Group
Efficiency
Nitrogen fixation