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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Green revolution
Renewable resource
Ecosystem
Limiting factor
2. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Nonrecyclable
Abiotic factor
Supply and demand
Omnivore
3. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Tragedy of the commons
Poaching
Biotic factor
Selective cutting
4. Organism that is killed
Control Group
Line graph
Prey
Column Graph
5. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Greenhouse effect
Threatened species
Nitrogen fixation
6. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Fossil fuel
Environmental Science
Agriculture
Biome
7. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Food chain
Prey
Extinction
8. Moving into a population
Biodiversity
Decomposer
Immigration
Climate
9. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Risk assessment
Pie graph
Omnivore
Endangered species
10. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Control Group
Nonrenewable resource
Yield
11. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Prey
Major food nutrients
Poaching
Parasitism
12. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Host
Primary succession
Line graph
Biodiversity
13. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Experimental error
Commensalism
Symbiosis
Carrying capacity
14. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Food chain
Dispersal
Carnivore
Ecology
15. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Decomposer
Energy conservation
Biome
Parasite
16. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Herbivore
Threatened species
Estuary
17. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Scavenger
Control Group
Recyclable
18. Mass destruction of most species
Primary succession
Pollution
Agriculture
Mass extinctions
19. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Biodegradable
Producer
Natural resource
20. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Emigration
Climate
Food web
Keystone species
21. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Grains
Ecological footprint
Natural Resource
Population
22. Something that breaks down into soil
Endangered species
Nonrenewable resource
Biodegradable
Symbiosis
23. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Temperature
Fossil fuel
Nonrenewable resource
Dependent variable
24. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Limiting factor
Groundwater
Worlds 5 Main Foods
25. A consumer that eats only plants
Scatter graph
Parasitism
Herbivore
Experimental error
26. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Immigration
Ecosystem
Climate
Environmental Science
27. Anything that harms an organism
Ecological footprint
Mass extinctions
Pioneer species
Pollution
28. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Agriculture
Pioneer species
Nonrecyclable
Secondary succession
29. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Nonrecyclable
Groundwater
Biodegradable
Agriculture Revolution
30. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Climate
Scavenger
Keystone species
Predator
31. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Carnivore
Natural selection
Parasitism
Nonrenewable resource
32. The number of different species in a given area
Dependent variable
Supply and demand
Biodiversity
Endangered species
33. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Prey
Hunters and Gatherers
Niche
34. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Natural Resource
Condensation
Ecosystem
Global warming
35. The practice of reducing energy use
Natural resource
Global warming
Energy conservation
Mass extinctions
36. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Column Graph
Threatened species
Bar graph
Growth rate
37. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Evaporation
Agriculture
Grains
Biome
38. An organism that can make it's own food
Herbivore
Producer
Omnivore
human error
39. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Precipitation
Supply and demand
Line graph
Scatter graph
40. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Control Group
Temperature
Experimental Groups
Depleted
41. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Agriculture Revolution
Scatter graph
Population
42. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Supply and demand
Endangered species
Experimental Groups
43. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Bar graph
Subsistence farmers
Niche
Control Group
44. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Hunters and Gatherers
Niche
Subsistence farmers
45. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Competition
Diet
Recyclable
Line graph
46. The first species to populate the area
Bar graph
Pioneer species
Ecosystem
Nonrenewable resource
47. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Scavenger
Biotic factor
Emigration
Greenhouse effect
48. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Nonrecyclable
Grains
Global warming
Sustainability
49. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Poaching
Control Group
Producer
50. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Biodiversity
Recyclable
Efficiency
Green revolution
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