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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Community
Fossil fuel
Line graph
2. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Dispersal
Predation
Control Group
Carrying capacity
3. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Line graph
Biotic factor
Independent variable
4. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Yield
Biodegradable
Developed countries
5. The practice of reducing energy use
Diet
Carrying capacity
Energy conservation
Nitrogen fixation
6. Something that breaks down into soil
Energy conservation
Biodiversity
Omnivore
Biodegradable
7. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Food web
Dependent variable
Dispersal
8. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Competition
Species
Predation
Immigration
9. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Risk assessment
Water cycle
Primary succession
Decomposer
10. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Natural resource
Community
Environmental Science
11. Heat from the Earth's interior
Scavenger
Efficiency
Line graph
Geothermal energy
12. An organism that can make it's own food
Biodegradable
Immigration
Producer
Community
13. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Groundwater
Developing countries
Selective cutting
14. The rate of which a plant grows at
Emigration
Growth rate
Environmental issue
Nonrenewable resource
15. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Succession
Natural resource
Adaptations
16. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Nitrogen fixation
Depleted
Nonrecyclable
Malnutrition
17. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Succession
Renewable resources
Limiting factor
18. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Abiotic factor
Carnivore
Hunters and Gatherers
Adaptations
19. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Evaporation
Nonrenewable resource
Primary succession
20. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Developing countries
Recyclable
Food chain
Species
21. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Estuary
Mass extinctions
Growth rate
Groundwater
22. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Hunters and Gatherers
Prey
Consumer
Keystone species
23. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Limiting factor
Decomposer
Global warming
Experimental error
24. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Pioneer species
Non-biodegradable
Keystone species
Sustainability
25. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Pioneer species
Consumer
Evaporation
Ecology
26. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
human error
Habitat
Parasite
Temperature
27. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Water cycle
Evaporation
Limiting factor
Primary succession
28. Organism that is killed
Prey
Developed countries
Omnivore
Experimental error
29. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Keystone species
Condensation
Pollution
Malnutrition
30. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Decomposer
Selective cutting
Line graph
Agriculture
31. Organism that does the killing
Experimental error
Dispersal
Predator
Food chain
32. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Fossil fuel
Competition
Natural resource
33. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Greenhouse effect
Extinction
Bar graph
34. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Limiting factor
Experimental Groups
Food chain
35. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Biodegradable
Malnutrition
Grains
Pioneer species
36. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Climate
Pie graph
Habitat
Agriculture
37. Leaving a population
Water cycle
Environmental Science
Sustainability
Emigration
38. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Line graph
Precipitation
Groundwater
Nitrogen fixation
39. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Limiting factor
Succession
Ecological footprint
Adaptations
40. The first species to populate the area
Depleted
Symbiosis
Pioneer species
Supply and demand
41. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Experimental error
Nitrogen fixation
Recyclable
Abiotic factor
42. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Control Group
Estuary
Industrial Revolution
Consumer
43. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Environmental issue
Experimental Groups
Efficiency
Climate
44. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Dispersal
Predation
Climate
Growth rate
45. Mistake in following procedure
Food chain
human error
Geothermal energy
Dependent variable
46. The number of different species in a given area
Hunters and Gatherers
Ecology
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
47. A chart with bars
Niche
Bar graph
Recyclable
Food chain
48. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Growth rate
Producer
Ecosystem
Estuary
49. A relationship in which both species benefit
Symbiosis
Prey
Nonrecyclable
Mutualism
50. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Immigration
Developed countries
Pie graph
Efficiency