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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Line graph
Habitat
human error
Biodiversity
2. Flaw in design of procedure
Secondary succession
Community
Column Graph
Experimental error
3. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Decomposer
Supply and demand
Precipitation
Abiotic factor
4. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Subsistence farmers
Climate
Threatened species
Community
5. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Energy conservation
Industrial Revolution
Mutualism
Decomposer
6. Possible to use again
Omnivore
Depleted
Recyclable
Cost benefit analysis
7. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Host
Nitrogen fixation
Developing countries
Growth rate
8. Something that breaks down into soil
Biotic factor
Pioneer species
Column Graph
Biodegradable
9. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Carnivore
Selective cutting
Biodegradable
10. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Niche
Industrial Revolution
Dependent variable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
11. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Recyclable
Food web
Extinction
Immigration
12. The variable that you manipulate
Abiotic factor
Independent variable
Pie graph
Emigration
13. An organism that can make it's own food
Subsistence farmers
Producer
Dispersal
Commensalism
14. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Primary succession
Sustainability
Threatened species
Parasitism
15. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Fossil fuel
Succession
Industrial Revolution
Control Group
16. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Ecological footprint
Column Graph
Consumer
Depleted
17. The number of different species in a given area
Water cycle
Pioneer species
Biodiversity
Cost benefit analysis
18. Moving into a population
Predation
Immigration
Grains
Agriculture
19. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Developing countries
Biotic factor
Habitat
20. Mistake in following procedure
Food chain
human error
Industrial Revolution
Renewable resource
21. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Poaching
Renewable resource
Food chain
22. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental issue
Predation
Risk assessment
23. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Sustainability
Grains
Limiting factor
Risk assessment
24. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Ecological footprint
Global warming
Agriculture
25. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Diet
Scavenger
Poaching
Producer
26. The number of different species in an area
Grains
Biodiversity
Nonrenewable resource
Precipitation
27. The largest population that an area can support
Experimental error
Climate
Carrying capacity
Renewable resource
28. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Emigration
Developed countries
Commensalism
Grains
29. Organism that is killed
Prey
Food chain
Biome
Non-biodegradable
30. A living part of an organism's habitat
Hunters and Gatherers
Biotic factor
Energy conservation
Risk assessment
31. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Groundwater
Natural Resource
Ecosystem
32. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Carrying capacity
Biodiversity
Experimental Groups
Renewable resources
33. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Mass extinctions
Symbiosis
Famine
Natural Resource
34. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Adaptations
Natural resource
Major food nutrients
Pie graph
35. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Habitat
Host
Data table
Natural Resource
36. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Biome
Diet
Environmental issue
Fossil fuel
37. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Scatter graph
Nitrogen fixation
Malnutrition
38. Leaving a population
Hunters and Gatherers
Condensation
Emigration
Data table
39. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Supply and demand
Adaptations
Emigration
40. Heat from the Earth's interior
Tragedy of the commons
Grains
Geothermal energy
Mutualism
41. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Depleted
Environmental issue
Biome
Natural Resource
42. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Primary succession
Sustainability
Keystone species
Pollution
43. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Nonrenewable resource
Selective cutting
Malnutrition
Mutualism
44. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Groundwater
Ecology
Efficiency
Green revolution
45. All the different populations that live together in an area
Threatened species
Community
Food chain
Immigration
46. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Sustainability
Developing countries
Environmental issue
Diet
47. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Natural selection
Carrying capacity
Greenhouse effect
48. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
human error
Biodegradable
Evaporation
Natural resource
49. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Extinction
Agriculture
Nonrenewable resource
Abiotic factor
50. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation
Omnivore
Estuary