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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Decomposer
Hunters and Gatherers
Supply and demand
Nonrecyclable
2. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Scavenger
Developed countries
Environmental issue
3. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Community
Cost benefit analysis
Ecological footprint
Biodiversity
4. The number of different species in a given area
Green revolution
Hunters and Gatherers
Bar graph
Biodiversity
5. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Column Graph
Grains
Natural selection
Energy conservation
6. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Threatened species
Habitat
Data table
Symbiosis
7. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Famine
Biodiversity
Developing countries
Parasite
8. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Subsistence farmers
Sustainability
Nitrogen fixation
Limiting factor
9. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Mutualism
Commensalism
Population
Bar graph
10. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Natural selection
Estuary
Ecological footprint
Immigration
11. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Emigration
Industrial Revolution
Extinction
Commensalism
12. All the members of one species in a particular area
Developing countries
Depleted
Bar graph
Population
13. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Endangered species
Evaporation
Malnutrition
Renewable resource
14. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food web
Dependent variable
Agriculture Revolution
Food chain
15. The variable that you manipulate
Yield
Independent variable
Diet
Secondary succession
16. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Dependent variable
Experimental Groups
Column Graph
17. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Scatter graph
Renewable resources
Keystone species
Niche
18. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Evaporation
Temperature
Commensalism
19. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Biodiversity
Scatter graph
Nitrogen fixation
Nonrecyclable
20. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Mutualism
Agriculture Revolution
Producer
Geothermal energy
21. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Independent variable
Selective cutting
Experimental Groups
Commensalism
22. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Niche
Prey
Fossil fuel
Pioneer species
23. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Yield
Dispersal
Agriculture
Abiotic factor
24. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Producer
Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
Estuary
25. Possible to use again
Natural resource
Diet
Niche
Recyclable
26. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Dispersal
Prey
Nonrenewable resource
Pioneer species
27. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Biodegradable
Predation
Niche
Estuary
28. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Line graph
Succession
Cost benefit analysis
Biome
29. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Primary succession
Secondary succession
Scatter graph
Biotic factor
30. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Limiting factor
Community
Energy conservation
Subsistence farmers
31. An organism that can make it's own food
Energy conservation
Pollution
Producer
Recyclable
32. Organism that is killed
Prey
Extinction
Sustainability
Supply and demand
33. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Line graph
Ecology
Precipitation
Scavenger
34. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Primary succession
Agriculture Revolution
Estuary
Diet
35. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Competition
Omnivore
Non-biodegradable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
36. Flaw in design of procedure
Nitrogen fixation
Experimental error
Primary succession
Carrying capacity
37. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Parasite
Experimental Groups
Water cycle
Omnivore
38. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Hunters and Gatherers
Yield
Nonrecyclable
39. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Biome
Subsistence farmers
Biodiversity
40. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Pie graph
Threatened species
Water cycle
Parasitism
41. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Secondary succession
Hunters and Gatherers
Agriculture
Climate
42. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Carnivore
Malnutrition
Pie graph
Condensation
43. Leaving a population
Emigration
Depleted
Growth rate
Nitrogen fixation
44. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developed countries
Nonrenewable resource
Food chain
Developing countries
45. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Parasite
Biodiversity
Renewable resource
46. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Ecosystem
Depleted
Famine
Data table
47. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Primary succession
Estuary
Sustainability
48. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Column Graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Endangered species
49. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Global warming
Adaptations
Threatened species
50. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Malnutrition
Greenhouse effect
Agriculture
Symbiosis