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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Supply and demand
Green revolution
Environmental issue
2. Flaw in design of procedure
Tragedy of the commons
Experimental error
Natural selection
Scatter graph
3. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Food chain
Control Group
Prey
Independent variable
4. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Biodegradable
Pollution
Carnivore
Ecological footprint
5. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Grains
Competition
Succession
Ecological footprint
6. Moving into a population
Experimental error
Immigration
Precipitation
Predator
7. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Biome
Experimental Groups
Predation
Data table
8. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Major food nutrients
Adaptations
Natural resource
Biodegradable
9. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Nonrecyclable
human error
Food web
Agriculture Revolution
10. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Risk assessment
Natural selection
Community
Predation
11. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Consumer
Habitat
Herbivore
12. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Food web
Environmental Science
Supply and demand
13. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Efficiency
Non-biodegradable
Cost benefit analysis
Population
14. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Water cycle
Developed countries
Nitrogen fixation
Subsistence farmers
15. Organism that is killed
Malnutrition
Prey
Estuary
Developed countries
16. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Carrying capacity
Non-biodegradable
Risk assessment
17. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Geothermal energy
Host
Keystone species
18. Anything that harms an organism
Predation
Biodiversity
Ecological footprint
Pollution
19. Possible to use again
Biodiversity
Predator
Greenhouse effect
Recyclable
20. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Immigration
Hunters and Gatherers
Energy conservation
Nonrenewable resource
21. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Herbivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Risk assessment
22. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Renewable resources
Major food nutrients
Biome
23. Mass destruction of most species
Grains
Mass extinctions
Column Graph
Dependent variable
24. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Food chain
Community
Temperature
Natural Resource
25. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Adaptations
Extinction
Green revolution
Experimental error
26. The number of different species in an area
Abiotic factor
Natural resource
Biodiversity
Mutualism
27. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Poaching
Natural selection
Famine
Biotic factor
28. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Scatter graph
Immigration
Subsistence farmers
29. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Pioneer species
Cost benefit analysis
Precipitation
Biodegradable
30. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Species
Predator
Pie graph
Condensation
31. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Estuary
Bar graph
Developing countries
Decomposer
32. The practice of reducing energy use
Bar graph
Experimental error
Tragedy of the commons
Energy conservation
33. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Evaporation
Food web
Experimental error
34. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Emigration
Environmental issue
Efficiency
Prey
35. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Natural Resource
Evaporation
Extinction
Secondary succession
36. The effect of the IV
Nitrogen fixation
Green revolution
Dependent variable
Grains
37. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Industrial Revolution
Commensalism
Community
Risk assessment
38. A living part of an organism's habitat
Natural resource
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Ecological footprint
Biotic factor
39. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Prey
Sustainability
Natural Resource
Environmental issue
40. A chart with bars
Developed countries
Biome
Bar graph
Famine
41. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Non-biodegradable
Tragedy of the commons
Estuary
42. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Biome
Omnivore
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse effect
43. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Natural Resource
Extinction
Experimental Groups
Poaching
44. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Natural Resource
Line graph
Supply and demand
Decomposer
45. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Abiotic factor
Developed countries
Primary succession
46. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Groundwater
Limiting factor
Nonrenewable resource
Nonrenewable resource
47. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Environmental Science
Community
Pioneer species
Agriculture
48. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Nitrogen fixation
Agriculture
Dispersal
Biodegradable
49. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Niche
Scavenger
Agriculture Revolution
50. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Growth rate
Food web
Food chain
Abiotic factor