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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A living part of an organism's habitat
Mutualism
Decomposer
Energy conservation
Biotic factor
2. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Condensation
Climate
3. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Limiting factor
Agriculture Revolution
Growth rate
4. All the different populations that live together in an area
Biotic factor
Subsistence farmers
Sustainability
Community
5. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Subsistence farmers
Species
Hunters and Gatherers
Evaporation
6. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Global warming
Consumer
Primary succession
Non-biodegradable
7. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Biodegradable
Major food nutrients
Efficiency
8. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Agriculture Revolution
Succession
Abiotic factor
Species
9. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Supply and demand
Decomposer
Pioneer species
Endangered species
10. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Symbiosis
Food chain
Competition
11. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Developed countries
Dependent variable
Commensalism
Scatter graph
12. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Temperature
Line graph
Nonrenewable resource
Precipitation
13. Leaving a population
Greenhouse effect
Hunters and Gatherers
Emigration
Scatter graph
14. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Adaptations
Global warming
Abiotic factor
Food chain
15. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Subsistence farmers
Prey
Omnivore
16. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Carrying capacity
Efficiency
Condensation
Ecology
17. Resources supplied by nature
Ecology
Primary succession
Environmental issue
Natural Resource
18. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Ecosystem
Climate
Energy conservation
19. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Independent variable
Industrial Revolution
Parasitism
20. Possible to use again
Biotic factor
Experimental Groups
Nitrogen fixation
Recyclable
21. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Dispersal
Greenhouse effect
Adaptations
22. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Tragedy of the commons
Yield
Nonrecyclable
Depleted
23. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Growth rate
Precipitation
Global warming
Ecosystem
24. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Experimental Groups
Omnivore
Depleted
Estuary
25. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Succession
Competition
Endangered species
Cost benefit analysis
26. The amount of food production in a given area
Water cycle
Ecological footprint
Yield
Global warming
27. The rate of which a plant grows at
Green revolution
Limiting factor
Evaporation
Growth rate
28. Something that breaks down into soil
Pollution
Biodiversity
Biodegradable
Grains
29. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Food web
Predation
Endangered species
Competition
30. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Risk assessment
Natural selection
Greenhouse effect
31. Mass destruction of most species
Omnivore
Adaptations
Supply and demand
Mass extinctions
32. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Nonrecyclable
Pioneer species
Supply and demand
33. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Non-biodegradable
Ecosystem
Dispersal
Dependent variable
34. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Yield
Carnivore
Supply and demand
35. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Malnutrition
Ecology
Host
Scavenger
36. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Cost benefit analysis
Climate
Food chain
Poaching
37. The number of different species in an area
Cost benefit analysis
Biodiversity
Yield
Worlds 5 Main Foods
38. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Abiotic factor
Adaptations
Developing countries
Temperature
39. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Mass extinctions
Symbiosis
Dispersal
Nonrenewable resource
40. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Nitrogen fixation
Supply and demand
Natural Resource
Natural selection
41. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Extinction
Selective cutting
Pioneer species
Fossil fuel
42. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Industrial Revolution
Pollution
Mass extinctions
Ecological footprint
43. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Mass extinctions
Commensalism
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Extinction
44. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Agriculture
Habitat
Efficiency
Biodegradable
45. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Global warming
Limiting factor
Experimental Groups
46. Moving into a population
Immigration
Herbivore
Nonrenewable resource
Tragedy of the commons
47. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Mass extinctions
Predation
Precipitation
Niche
48. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Biodiversity
Species
Niche
Pollution
49. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Mutualism
Ecological footprint
Parasite
Sustainability
50. Organism that does the killing
Threatened species
Predator
Primary succession
Recyclable