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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Data table
Ecosystem
Experimental Groups
Environmental issue
2. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Growth rate
Selective cutting
Producer
Groundwater
3. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Subsistence farmers
Climate
Environmental Science
Dispersal
4. The rate of which a plant grows at
Developing countries
Renewable resources
Growth rate
Herbivore
5. Heat from the Earth's interior
Efficiency
Global warming
Cost benefit analysis
Geothermal energy
6. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Precipitation
Data table
Threatened species
Mutualism
7. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Yield
Line graph
Green revolution
Risk assessment
8. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Ecosystem
Primary succession
Estuary
Parasite
9. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Geothermal energy
Producer
Non-biodegradable
Supply and demand
10. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Environmental Science
Cost benefit analysis
Nonrenewable resource
Major food nutrients
11. Leaving a population
Independent variable
Mutualism
Emigration
Adaptations
12. A chart with bars
Industrial Revolution
Environmental Science
Sustainability
Bar graph
13. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Estuary
Fossil fuel
Host
Hunters and Gatherers
14. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Pie graph
Agriculture
Mutualism
Niche
15. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Limiting factor
Predation
Nonrenewable resource
16. A consumer that eats only plants
Groundwater
Herbivore
Nonrecyclable
Natural Resource
17. The largest population that an area can support
Risk assessment
Mass extinctions
Immigration
Carrying capacity
18. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Evaporation
Pie graph
Parasite
Renewable resource
19. The number of different species in a given area
Nonrecyclable
Dependent variable
Symbiosis
Biodiversity
20. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Immigration
Natural resource
Major food nutrients
Commensalism
21. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Secondary succession
Environmental Science
Nonrenewable resource
Abiotic factor
22. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Natural selection
Groundwater
Biome
Tragedy of the commons
23. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Host
Green revolution
Nonrecyclable
Global warming
24. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Subsistence farmers
Sustainability
Condensation
Cost benefit analysis
25. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Temperature
Host
Geothermal energy
Evaporation
26. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Developed countries
Ecological footprint
Climate
Mass extinctions
27. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Green revolution
Parasitism
Parasite
28. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Food web
Extinction
Dependent variable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
29. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Grains
Major food nutrients
Endangered species
Climate
30. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Community
Environmental issue
Nitrogen fixation
Industrial Revolution
31. Organism that does the killing
Community
Predator
Sustainability
Biome
32. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Prey
Natural selection
Ecological footprint
33. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Host
Biome
Poaching
Nonrecyclable
34. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Groundwater
Natural selection
Ecological footprint
Estuary
35. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Pioneer species
Agriculture
Community
Data table
36. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Precipitation
Succession
Depleted
Green revolution
37. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Pollution
Estuary
Nonrecyclable
Yield
38. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Pie graph
Omnivore
Parasitism
39. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Supply and demand
Decomposer
Depleted
Industrial Revolution
40. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Temperature
Selective cutting
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Immigration
41. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Ecosystem
Commensalism
Decomposer
Industrial Revolution
42. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Extinction
Scavenger
Nonrenewable resource
Depleted
43. Moving into a population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Adaptations
Immigration
Fossil fuel
44. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Host
Pie graph
Food web
Biodegradable
45. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Natural selection
Threatened species
Water cycle
46. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Community
Groundwater
Selective cutting
Non-biodegradable
47. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Cost benefit analysis
Omnivore
Geothermal energy
Threatened species
48. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Adaptations
Food web
Fossil fuel
49. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Water cycle
Renewable resources
Dependent variable
Bar graph
50. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Adaptations
Symbiosis
Ecosystem
Secondary succession
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