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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Diet
Agriculture
Precipitation
Ecosystem
2. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Renewable resource
Growth rate
3. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Depleted
Growth rate
Environmental issue
Efficiency
4. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Limiting factor
Famine
Dependent variable
Natural selection
5. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Community
Non-biodegradable
Line graph
Parasitism
6. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Natural selection
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Predator
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Yield
Greenhouse effect
Environmental issue
8. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Growth rate
Carnivore
Keystone species
Grains
9. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Consumer
Keystone species
Environmental issue
10. Possible to use again
Tragedy of the commons
Recyclable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Subsistence farmers
11. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Famine
Grains
Scavenger
Parasitism
12. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Adaptations
Prey
Species
Parasitism
13. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Biotic factor
Natural resource
Succession
14. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Water cycle
Experimental error
Data table
Host
15. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Control Group
Efficiency
Pie graph
Parasite
16. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Cost benefit analysis
Estuary
Producer
17. The largest population that an area can support
Famine
Niche
Abiotic factor
Carrying capacity
18. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Estuary
Ecological footprint
Climate
Green revolution
19. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Carnivore
Keystone species
Threatened species
Developing countries
20. All the members of one species in a particular area
Pioneer species
Agriculture
Population
Greenhouse effect
21. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Developed countries
Temperature
Scatter graph
Symbiosis
22. The effect of the IV
Tragedy of the commons
Dependent variable
Carrying capacity
Biodegradable
23. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Experimental error
Succession
Scatter graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
24. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Data table
Efficiency
Non-biodegradable
25. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Prey
Yield
Pie graph
26. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Pioneer species
Precipitation
Carnivore
Industrial Revolution
27. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Developing countries
Predation
Biodegradable
28. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Biodegradable
Endangered species
Succession
29. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Immigration
Omnivore
Natural resource
Pioneer species
30. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Biodegradable
Geothermal energy
Control Group
31. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Biotic factor
Diet
Global warming
Threatened species
32. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Line graph
Hunters and Gatherers
Commensalism
Control Group
33. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Decomposer
Column Graph
Environmental issue
34. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Malnutrition
Renewable resources
Developing countries
Secondary succession
35. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Yield
Emigration
Primary succession
36. Leaving a population
Environmental Science
Emigration
Grains
Natural Resource
37. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Bar graph
Limiting factor
Natural Resource
38. The number of different species in an area
Estuary
Biodiversity
Ecological footprint
Experimental error
39. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Fossil fuel
Host
Experimental error
Cost benefit analysis
40. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Mass extinctions
Subsistence farmers
Renewable resources
Biodiversity
41. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Population
Energy conservation
Biodegradable
Groundwater
42. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Biotic factor
Developing countries
Succession
Carnivore
43. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Scavenger
Green revolution
Depleted
Tragedy of the commons
44. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Herbivore
Water cycle
Parasite
45. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Habitat
Niche
Parasitism
Hunters and Gatherers
46. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Independent variable
Predator
Competition
Extinction
47. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Industrial Revolution
Biotic factor
Column Graph
48. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Efficiency
Herbivore
Cost benefit analysis
Developing countries
49. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Mutualism
Major food nutrients
Efficiency
Ecosystem
50. An organism that can make it's own food
Green revolution
Biodiversity
Developed countries
Producer