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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Climate
Global warming
Dependent variable
Symbiosis
2. Resources supplied by nature
Biodiversity
Scavenger
Species
Natural Resource
3. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Succession
Endangered species
Food chain
4. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Parasitism
Extinction
Risk assessment
5. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Industrial Revolution
Renewable resource
Recyclable
Natural selection
6. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Parasitism
Condensation
Data table
7. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Prey
Green revolution
Precipitation
Malnutrition
8. All the different populations that live together in an area
Line graph
Threatened species
Primary succession
Community
9. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Mass extinctions
Scatter graph
Recyclable
10. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Threatened species
Agriculture
Scavenger
11. The first species to populate the area
Habitat
Pioneer species
Precipitation
Parasite
12. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Climate
Hunters and Gatherers
Nonrenewable resource
13. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Experimental Groups
Commensalism
Greenhouse effect
14. A chart with bars
Yield
Agriculture Revolution
Efficiency
Bar graph
15. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Food web
Global warming
Climate
Biodiversity
16. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Limiting factor
Nonrenewable resource
Global warming
Symbiosis
17. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Selective cutting
Pie graph
Nonrenewable resource
Risk assessment
18. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Environmental issue
Food chain
Nonrecyclable
Primary succession
19. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Grains
Niche
Renewable resource
Evaporation
20. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Non-biodegradable
Ecological footprint
Herbivore
Yield
21. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Fossil fuel
Risk assessment
Pie graph
Carrying capacity
22. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Renewable resources
Mutualism
Experimental Groups
Predation
23. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Commensalism
Primary succession
Adaptations
24. The number of different species in a given area
Evaporation
Hunters and Gatherers
Biodiversity
Experimental error
25. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Limiting factor
Herbivore
human error
Tragedy of the commons
26. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Green revolution
Condensation
Adaptations
Agriculture
27. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Pollution
human error
Environmental Science
Mutualism
28. The largest population that an area can support
Parasitism
Condensation
Host
Carrying capacity
29. The practice of reducing energy use
Decomposer
Energy conservation
Succession
Immigration
30. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Ecology
Competition
Supply and demand
Food web
31. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Pioneer species
Independent variable
Experimental error
Depleted
32. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Control Group
Environmental issue
Herbivore
33. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Pollution
Data table
Carrying capacity
34. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Predation
Major food nutrients
Threatened species
Omnivore
35. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Precipitation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Agriculture Revolution
Biome
36. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Experimental error
Competition
Evaporation
Depleted
37. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Adaptations
Limiting factor
Condensation
38. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Keystone species
Groundwater
Carnivore
Consumer
39. All the members of one species in a particular area
Host
Nonrenewable resource
Population
Pie graph
40. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodiversity
Water cycle
41. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Omnivore
Developed countries
Prey
Industrial Revolution
42. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Natural resource
Cost benefit analysis
Subsistence farmers
Keystone species
43. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Condensation
Line graph
Sustainability
Groundwater
44. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Experimental Groups
Host
Endangered species
45. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Nonrenewable resource
Energy conservation
Succession
Producer
46. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Subsistence farmers
Bar graph
Tragedy of the commons
Host
47. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Pollution
Precipitation
Nitrogen fixation
48. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Biotic factor
Evaporation
Omnivore
Ecology
49. Leaving a population
Biodiversity
Growth rate
Emigration
Primary succession
50. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Geothermal energy
Line graph
Parasitism
Biome