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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Immigration
Prey
Tragedy of the commons
Worlds 5 Main Foods
2. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Industrial Revolution
Natural resource
Omnivore
Cost benefit analysis
3. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Developed countries
Dispersal
human error
Habitat
4. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Grains
Agriculture
Nonrecyclable
Mutualism
5. All the members of one species in a particular area
Estuary
Hunters and Gatherers
Herbivore
Population
6. Heat from the Earth's interior
Omnivore
Pioneer species
Geothermal energy
Column Graph
7. Possible to use again
Nitrogen fixation
Recyclable
Evaporation
Threatened species
8. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Pollution
Biodiversity
Major food nutrients
Energy conservation
9. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Nonrenewable resource
Major food nutrients
Keystone species
10. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Subsistence farmers
Keystone species
Omnivore
Pioneer species
11. Leaving a population
Energy conservation
Emigration
Niche
Carnivore
12. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Extinction
Temperature
Pollution
Consumer
13. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Precipitation
Limiting factor
Natural Resource
Bar graph
14. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Extinction
Developing countries
Dispersal
Endangered species
15. Moving into a population
Immigration
Major food nutrients
Ecological footprint
Tragedy of the commons
16. Organism that does the killing
Ecology
Predator
Green revolution
Omnivore
17. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Parasitism
Fossil fuel
Bar graph
18. The number of different species in a given area
Condensation
Fossil fuel
Dependent variable
Biodiversity
19. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Emigration
Line graph
Symbiosis
Habitat
20. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Scavenger
Competition
Biodegradable
Environmental issue
21. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Prey
Natural selection
Predation
Experimental Groups
22. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Nonrenewable resource
Biodegradable
Poaching
Natural resource
23. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Biome
Experimental Groups
Predation
Famine
24. All the different populations that live together in an area
human error
Energy conservation
Parasitism
Community
25. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Nitrogen fixation
Abiotic factor
Environmental Science
26. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Biodiversity
Pie graph
Pioneer species
27. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Mass extinctions
Tragedy of the commons
Natural resource
Poaching
28. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Supply and demand
Biotic factor
Scatter graph
Natural selection
29. The effect of the IV
Parasitism
Primary succession
Condensation
Dependent variable
30. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Malnutrition
Habitat
Fossil fuel
31. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Climate
Predator
Supply and demand
32. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Developed countries
Immigration
Agriculture
33. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Sustainability
Biome
Species
Agriculture
34. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Temperature
Bar graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
35. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Food chain
Population
Developed countries
Green revolution
36. Flaw in design of procedure
Succession
Experimental error
Risk assessment
Biodegradable
37. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Endangered species
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Abiotic factor
Ecology
38. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Independent variable
Climate
Non-biodegradable
Recyclable
39. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Biodiversity
Dependent variable
Nonrecyclable
Parasitism
40. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Predator
Agriculture
Parasite
Nonrenewable resource
41. Mistake in following procedure
Competition
Environmental Science
Groundwater
human error
42. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Species
Efficiency
Tragedy of the commons
Experimental Groups
43. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Biodegradable
Line graph
Succession
Mass extinctions
44. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Yield
Precipitation
Estuary
Nonrenewable resource
45. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Pie graph
Risk assessment
Condensation
Renewable resources
46. A living part of an organism's habitat
Recyclable
Biotic factor
human error
Ecosystem
47. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Greenhouse effect
Predator
Ecosystem
Green revolution
48. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Diet
Depleted
Producer
Endangered species
49. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Global warming
Predation
Ecological footprint
50. The amount of food production in a given area
Biodegradable
Symbiosis
Nitrogen fixation
Yield
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