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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The amount of food production in a given area
Natural Resource
Yield
Producer
Supply and demand
2. The first species to populate the area
Abiotic factor
Diet
Column Graph
Pioneer species
3. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Condensation
Fossil fuel
Adaptations
4. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Producer
Selective cutting
Greenhouse effect
Evaporation
5. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Abiotic factor
Host
Keystone species
Industrial Revolution
6. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Parasitism
Natural resource
Endangered species
Independent variable
7. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Yield
Fossil fuel
Mass extinctions
8. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Greenhouse effect
Scatter graph
Competition
Temperature
9. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Dispersal
Evaporation
Competition
Hunters and Gatherers
10. The number of different species in a given area
Fossil fuel
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Primary succession
11. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Malnutrition
Data table
Pollution
Symbiosis
12. A chart with bars
Community
Groundwater
Bar graph
Keystone species
13. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Environmental Science
Climate
Abiotic factor
Greenhouse effect
14. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Experimental Groups
Renewable resources
Parasitism
Renewable resource
15. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Bar graph
Emigration
Estuary
Renewable resource
16. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Column Graph
Efficiency
Threatened species
Extinction
17. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Cost benefit analysis
Dependent variable
Yield
Poaching
18. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Independent variable
Water cycle
Renewable resources
19. A relationship in which both species benefit
Natural resource
Succession
Water cycle
Mutualism
20. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Mutualism
Environmental Science
Nonrenewable resource
Mass extinctions
21. Anything that harms an organism
Environmental Science
Greenhouse effect
Pollution
Nonrenewable resource
22. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Column Graph
Species
Industrial Revolution
Subsistence farmers
23. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Energy conservation
Ecological footprint
Decomposer
Depleted
24. The effect of the IV
Secondary succession
Dependent variable
Evaporation
Energy conservation
25. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Recyclable
Species
Precipitation
Agriculture Revolution
26. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Predator
Prey
Independent variable
Control Group
27. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Agriculture
Data table
Sustainability
Pioneer species
28. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Estuary
Natural selection
Scavenger
Risk assessment
29. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Estuary
Grains
Column Graph
Tragedy of the commons
30. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Secondary succession
Nonrenewable resource
Herbivore
Emigration
31. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Column Graph
Pie graph
Global warming
Omnivore
32. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Ecosystem
Efficiency
Predator
Consumer
33. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Diet
Prey
Renewable resources
Groundwater
34. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Pie graph
Line graph
Ecological footprint
Species
35. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Keystone species
Efficiency
Ecosystem
36. Organism that does the killing
Temperature
Parasitism
Predator
Competition
37. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Developed countries
Carrying capacity
38. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Scatter graph
Symbiosis
Condensation
Yield
39. The practice of reducing energy use
Environmental Science
Energy conservation
Natural selection
Non-biodegradable
40. Possible to use again
Mass extinctions
Bar graph
Recyclable
Experimental Groups
41. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Groundwater
Sustainability
Energy conservation
42. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Estuary
Carrying capacity
Species
Succession
43. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Hunters and Gatherers
Niche
Producer
Herbivore
44. A consumer that eats only animals
Food chain
Nitrogen fixation
Carnivore
Fossil fuel
45. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Major food nutrients
Poaching
Condensation
Temperature
46. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Biodegradable
Renewable resource
Malnutrition
Green revolution
47. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Subsistence farmers
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
48. Leaving a population
Emigration
Greenhouse effect
Poaching
Sustainability
49. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Symbiosis
Emigration
Major food nutrients
Ecology
50. A living part of an organism's habitat
Water cycle
Biome
Poaching
Biotic factor