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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Fossil fuel
Diet
Data table
Decomposer
2. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Climate
Famine
Producer
Dispersal
3. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Predation
Biome
Condensation
Habitat
4. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Developed countries
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
Biodegradable
5. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Bar graph
Precipitation
Malnutrition
Prey
6. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Limiting factor
Poaching
Environmental issue
Mass extinctions
7. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Evaporation
Green revolution
Succession
Hunters and Gatherers
8. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Mutualism
Depleted
Decomposer
9. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Biodegradable
Carrying capacity
Mutualism
Hunters and Gatherers
10. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Extinction
Prey
Biodiversity
11. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Evaporation
Developing countries
Line graph
Poaching
12. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Natural Resource
Nitrogen fixation
Decomposer
Column Graph
13. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Supply and demand
Commensalism
Precipitation
Adaptations
14. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Developing countries
Supply and demand
Adaptations
Species
15. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Grains
Groundwater
Biodiversity
Sustainability
16. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Data table
Selective cutting
Keystone species
Producer
17. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Selective cutting
Greenhouse effect
Agriculture Revolution
Temperature
18. The largest population that an area can support
Nonrecyclable
Geothermal energy
Secondary succession
Carrying capacity
19. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Green revolution
Nonrenewable resource
Community
Consumer
20. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Sustainability
Nonrenewable resource
Nonrecyclable
21. Moving into a population
Immigration
Environmental Science
Experimental Groups
Parasite
22. Heat from the Earth's interior
Geothermal energy
Ecology
Pollution
Data table
23. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Competition
Greenhouse effect
Parasitism
Water cycle
24. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Evaporation
Immigration
Column Graph
Carnivore
25. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
human error
Consumer
Line graph
Estuary
26. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Hunters and Gatherers
Species
Keystone species
Water cycle
27. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Mass extinctions
Non-biodegradable
Adaptations
28. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Tragedy of the commons
Agriculture
Ecological footprint
Agriculture Revolution
29. Something that breaks down into soil
Environmental Science
Biodegradable
Primary succession
Producer
30. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Renewable resource
Selective cutting
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
31. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Subsistence farmers
Parasite
Experimental Groups
Hunters and Gatherers
32. A consumer that eats only plants
Dependent variable
Herbivore
Ecosystem
Famine
33. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Poaching
Carnivore
Fossil fuel
Famine
34. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Biome
Pollution
Prey
35. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Host
Major food nutrients
Line graph
Community
36. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Succession
Threatened species
Precipitation
Developed countries
37. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Temperature
Greenhouse effect
Abiotic factor
38. The number of different species in an area
Habitat
Nonrecyclable
Biodiversity
Producer
39. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental issue
Environmental Science
Biodiversity
Mass extinctions
40. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Natural selection
Carrying capacity
Risk assessment
Supply and demand
41. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Growth rate
Non-biodegradable
Poaching
Developed countries
42. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Temperature
Community
Keystone species
Evaporation
43. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Developed countries
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
44. Mass destruction of most species
Predation
Extinction
Ecosystem
Mass extinctions
45. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Experimental error
Fossil fuel
Pie graph
Grains
46. The practice of reducing energy use
Pioneer species
Renewable resource
Energy conservation
Succession
47. Organism that does the killing
Green revolution
Subsistence farmers
Predator
Yield
48. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Yield
Grains
Dependent variable
Extinction
49. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Agriculture Revolution
Condensation
Industrial Revolution
Renewable resources
50. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Data table
Scatter graph
Evaporation
Industrial Revolution