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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Scatter graph
Precipitation
Consumer
Ecosystem
2. The first species to populate the area
Control Group
Nitrogen fixation
Pioneer species
Line graph
3. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Competition
Tragedy of the commons
Biodegradable
Selective cutting
4. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Grains
Non-biodegradable
Subsistence farmers
Fossil fuel
5. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Famine
Herbivore
Subsistence farmers
Emigration
6. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Data table
Primary succession
Renewable resources
7. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Energy conservation
Green revolution
Geothermal energy
Competition
8. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Adaptations
Grains
Nitrogen fixation
Host
9. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Natural Resource
Estuary
Greenhouse effect
Industrial Revolution
10. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Pie graph
Renewable resources
Experimental Groups
Host
11. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Nitrogen fixation
Keystone species
Global warming
Adaptations
12. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Population
Malnutrition
Limiting factor
Hunters and Gatherers
13. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Abiotic factor
Biome
Growth rate
Condensation
14. Organism that does the killing
Non-biodegradable
Predator
Precipitation
Keystone species
15. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Column Graph
Industrial Revolution
Decomposer
Developed countries
16. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Natural resource
Pollution
Mass extinctions
Abiotic factor
17. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Consumer
Biodegradable
Supply and demand
18. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Keystone species
Supply and demand
Recyclable
Column Graph
19. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Keystone species
Herbivore
Predator
20. All the members of one species in a particular area
Biodiversity
Population
Primary succession
Dispersal
21. Mistake in following procedure
Risk assessment
Agriculture Revolution
human error
Secondary succession
22. The effect of the IV
Biome
Data table
Dependent variable
Immigration
23. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Nonrecyclable
Ecology
Bar graph
Community
24. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Water cycle
Ecological footprint
Mass extinctions
25. Anything that harms an organism
Habitat
Hunters and Gatherers
Efficiency
Pollution
26. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Nonrecyclable
Natural resource
Decomposer
Dependent variable
27. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Agriculture
Symbiosis
Fossil fuel
28. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Agriculture Revolution
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Famine
Nitrogen fixation
29. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Carrying capacity
Major food nutrients
Developing countries
30. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Pie graph
Consumer
Decomposer
Threatened species
31. Mass destruction of most species
Efficiency
Mutualism
Mass extinctions
Global warming
32. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Bar graph
Natural resource
Diet
Pollution
33. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Commensalism
Nonrecyclable
Secondary succession
34. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Emigration
Recyclable
Symbiosis
35. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Developing countries
Nitrogen fixation
Independent variable
Primary succession
36. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Food chain
Biodegradable
Extinction
37. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Agriculture
Poaching
Groundwater
Risk assessment
38. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Evaporation
Experimental Groups
Dispersal
Species
39. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Efficiency
Biodiversity
Environmental issue
40. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Predator
Selective cutting
Pie graph
Consumer
41. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Supply and demand
Ecology
Commensalism
Endangered species
42. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Developing countries
Industrial Revolution
Extinction
43. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Omnivore
Mass extinctions
Sustainability
44. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Biodiversity
Developed countries
Carrying capacity
45. Something that breaks down into soil
Carnivore
Biotic factor
Extinction
Biodegradable
46. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Sustainability
Industrial Revolution
Pie graph
Green revolution
47. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Limiting factor
Famine
Ecological footprint
Recyclable
48. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Column Graph
Environmental Science
Herbivore
49. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Food web
Extinction
Succession
Biodiversity
50. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Biodiversity
Host
Scatter graph
Limiting factor