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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Symbiosis
Hunters and Gatherers
Dependent variable
Nonrenewable resource
2. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Nonrenewable resource
Depleted
Major food nutrients
Prey
3. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Major food nutrients
Adaptations
Biotic factor
Species
4. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Grains
Commensalism
Green revolution
Natural selection
5. All the different populations that live together in an area
Consumer
Evaporation
Community
Water cycle
6. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Malnutrition
Green revolution
Greenhouse effect
7. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Malnutrition
Food chain
Experimental Groups
Scatter graph
8. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Producer
Parasitism
Developed countries
Sustainability
9. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Habitat
Biodiversity
Evaporation
Agriculture
10. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Producer
Emigration
Omnivore
11. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
human error
Natural resource
Industrial Revolution
Competition
12. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Producer
Experimental Groups
Niche
Line graph
13. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Scavenger
Niche
Food web
14. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Biome
Dependent variable
Nonrecyclable
15. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Herbivore
Community
Global warming
Grains
16. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Recyclable
Biodegradable
Poaching
17. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Selective cutting
Commensalism
Experimental Groups
Data table
18. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Competition
Biodegradable
Prey
Column Graph
19. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Bar graph
Biotic factor
Commensalism
Habitat
20. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Competition
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Hunters and Gatherers
Environmental issue
21. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Geothermal energy
Bar graph
Greenhouse effect
Population
22. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Keystone species
Parasitism
Energy conservation
Supply and demand
23. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Evaporation
Environmental issue
Community
Experimental Groups
24. Organism that is killed
Prey
Primary succession
Industrial Revolution
Mutualism
25. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Groundwater
Estuary
Producer
Pioneer species
26. Anything that harms an organism
Extinction
Global warming
Pollution
Mass extinctions
27. Moving into a population
Experimental error
Immigration
Water cycle
Recyclable
28. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Evaporation
Control Group
Environmental Science
29. 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
Natural Resource
Major food nutrients
Environmental issue
30. The variable that you manipulate
Mutualism
Temperature
Community
Independent variable
31. A living part of an organism's habitat
Agriculture Revolution
Risk assessment
Famine
Biotic factor
32. The practice of reducing energy use
Nonrenewable resource
Energy conservation
Ecology
Supply and demand
33. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Greenhouse effect
Niche
Immigration
Dispersal
34. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Depleted
Hunters and Gatherers
Threatened species
Commensalism
35. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Pie graph
Food web
Temperature
Community
36. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Natural Resource
Experimental error
Cost benefit analysis
Yield
37. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Scatter graph
Grains
Decomposer
38. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Biotic factor
Depleted
Poaching
39. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Niche
Carrying capacity
Decomposer
Risk assessment
40. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Natural Resource
Malnutrition
Subsistence farmers
41. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Carnivore
Dispersal
Selective cutting
Ecological footprint
42. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Yield
Extinction
Renewable resources
Prey
43. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Decomposer
Famine
Risk assessment
Grains
44. A relationship in which both species benefit
Endangered species
Herbivore
Ecological footprint
Mutualism
45. All the members of one species in a particular area
Parasitism
Population
Scatter graph
Growth rate
46. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Condensation
Primary succession
Agriculture Revolution
47. The rate of which a plant grows at
Precipitation
Nonrenewable resource
Energy conservation
Growth rate
48. Flaw in design of procedure
Secondary succession
Experimental error
Diet
Pollution
49. A consumer that eats only plants
Ecosystem
Carrying capacity
Herbivore
Commensalism
50. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Threatened species
Nonrecyclable
Adaptations
Worlds 5 Main Foods