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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Dependent variable
Nonrecyclable
Growth rate
Parasite
2. The effect of the IV
Immigration
Biodegradable
Natural selection
Dependent variable
3. The amount of food production in a given area
Risk assessment
Yield
Non-biodegradable
Mutualism
4. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Developing countries
Omnivore
Non-biodegradable
Environmental issue
5. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Nonrenewable resource
Natural Resource
Carnivore
Succession
6. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Geothermal energy
Mass extinctions
Water cycle
7. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Precipitation
Ecology
Environmental issue
Endangered species
8. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Experimental Groups
Symbiosis
Efficiency
9. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Climate
Renewable resource
Green revolution
Pie graph
10. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Global warming
Data table
Commensalism
11. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Line graph
Tragedy of the commons
Scatter graph
Geothermal energy
12. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Poaching
Parasite
Herbivore
Malnutrition
13. Mass destruction of most species
Industrial Revolution
Threatened species
Estuary
Mass extinctions
14. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Independent variable
Developing countries
Estuary
Extinction
15. Flaw in design of procedure
Cost benefit analysis
Geothermal energy
Experimental error
Control Group
16. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Biodiversity
Fossil fuel
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Developed countries
17. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Geothermal energy
Scavenger
Sustainability
Decomposer
18. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Hunters and Gatherers
Pioneer species
Supply and demand
Ecology
19. Mistake in following procedure
Ecosystem
human error
Mutualism
Renewable resource
20. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Poaching
Predation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Carnivore
21. The largest population that an area can support
Data table
Immigration
Competition
Carrying capacity
22. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Agriculture Revolution
Host
Condensation
Pie graph
23. All the members of one species in a particular area
Hunters and Gatherers
Environmental Science
Population
Selective cutting
24. Leaving a population
Natural resource
Emigration
Nitrogen fixation
Mass extinctions
25. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Hunters and Gatherers
Symbiosis
Ecology
Cost benefit analysis
26. The rate of which a plant grows at
Predation
Growth rate
Commensalism
Nonrenewable resource
27. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Recyclable
Habitat
Ecological footprint
28. Moving into a population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Risk assessment
Immigration
Temperature
29. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Climate
Population
Limiting factor
Parasite
30. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Condensation
Nonrecyclable
Prey
Diet
31. Organism that is killed
Prey
Famine
Natural selection
human error
32. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Nonrenewable resource
Habitat
Ecology
Extinction
33. The first species to populate the area
Sustainability
Pioneer species
Abiotic factor
Experimental error
34. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Succession
Independent variable
Species
Predator
35. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Biodegradable
Bar graph
Natural resource
Depleted
36. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Industrial Revolution
Data table
Ecological footprint
37. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Agriculture
Selective cutting
Nonrenewable resource
Fossil fuel
38. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Prey
Scatter graph
Dependent variable
39. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Scatter graph
Agriculture Revolution
Precipitation
Secondary succession
40. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Efficiency
Consumer
Scavenger
Condensation
41. 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
Scatter graph
Green revolution
Natural Resource
42. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Green revolution
Extinction
Parasite
Industrial Revolution
43. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Commensalism
Competition
Nonrenewable resource
Data table
44. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Immigration
Nonrecyclable
Temperature
Supply and demand
45. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Extinction
Malnutrition
Agriculture Revolution
46. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Column Graph
Supply and demand
Nonrenewable resource
Greenhouse effect
47. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Global warming
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Environmental Science
Scavenger
48. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Fossil fuel
Carrying capacity
Food web
49. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Predator
Major food nutrients
Hunters and Gatherers
Biodiversity
50. A species that could become endangered in the near future
human error
Renewable resource
Pie graph
Threatened species