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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Pollution
Selective cutting
Biome
Population
2. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Adaptations
Niche
Malnutrition
Predation
3. Heat from the Earth's interior
Biodegradable
Non-biodegradable
Geothermal energy
Parasitism
4. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Limiting factor
Risk assessment
Subsistence farmers
5. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Supply and demand
Herbivore
Parasite
Estuary
6. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Food chain
Decomposer
Pie graph
Carrying capacity
7. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Nonrecyclable
Primary succession
Natural selection
Industrial Revolution
8. Mass destruction of most species
Control Group
Secondary succession
Depleted
Mass extinctions
9. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Threatened species
Experimental error
Environmental issue
10. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Immigration
Ecological footprint
Temperature
Endangered species
11. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Famine
Natural Resource
Water cycle
12. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Groundwater
Omnivore
Risk assessment
13. Resources supplied by nature
Abiotic factor
Prey
Natural Resource
Agriculture Revolution
14. The rate of which a plant grows at
Cost benefit analysis
Growth rate
Data table
Primary succession
15. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Host
Herbivore
Niche
Nitrogen fixation
16. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Ecology
Global warming
Competition
Famine
17. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Limiting factor
human error
Natural Resource
18. All the different populations that live together in an area
Environmental issue
Community
Industrial Revolution
Poaching
19. A chart with bars
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
Efficiency
Bar graph
20. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Biodegradable
Developing countries
Environmental issue
21. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Scatter graph
Natural selection
Pioneer species
22. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Niche
Poaching
Condensation
23. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Nonrenewable resource
Keystone species
Data table
Secondary succession
24. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Pie graph
Depleted
Producer
Subsistence farmers
25. Anything that harms an organism
Biome
Pioneer species
Supply and demand
Pollution
26. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Keystone species
Nitrogen fixation
Prey
Abiotic factor
27. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Habitat
Species
Hunters and Gatherers
28. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Primary succession
Global warming
Adaptations
Natural resource
29. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Temperature
Yield
Column Graph
30. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Biodegradable
Subsistence farmers
Recyclable
Habitat
31. Leaving a population
Emigration
Greenhouse effect
Experimental Groups
Efficiency
32. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Recyclable
Column Graph
Efficiency
Extinction
33. The variable that you manipulate
Efficiency
Independent variable
Food web
Nitrogen fixation
34. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Species
Environmental Science
Succession
Fossil fuel
35. Mistake in following procedure
Industrial Revolution
Poaching
human error
Primary succession
36. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Condensation
Evaporation
Industrial Revolution
Limiting factor
37. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Scatter graph
Host
Mass extinctions
Decomposer
38. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Carrying capacity
Environmental Science
Ecology
39. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Food web
Community
Agriculture
Industrial Revolution
40. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Agriculture
Food chain
Agriculture Revolution
41. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Experimental error
Industrial Revolution
Global warming
42. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Renewable resources
Groundwater
Environmental issue
Precipitation
43. The practice of reducing energy use
Industrial Revolution
Energy conservation
Population
Column Graph
44. Flaw in design of procedure
Ecology
Experimental error
Parasitism
Evaporation
45. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Malnutrition
Famine
Niche
Parasitism
46. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Natural Resource
Food web
Famine
47. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Niche
Ecology
Nonrenewable resource
Condensation
48. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Non-biodegradable
Renewable resources
Biodegradable
Decomposer
49. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Limiting factor
human error
Scavenger
Data table
50. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Biodiversity
Habitat
Commensalism
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