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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Dependent variable
Hunters and Gatherers
Risk assessment
2. Heat from the Earth's interior
Renewable resource
Biodiversity
Scavenger
Geothermal energy
3. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Limiting factor
Temperature
Evaporation
Efficiency
4. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Natural Resource
Experimental Groups
Environmental issue
Non-biodegradable
5. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Global warming
Omnivore
Extinction
6. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Secondary succession
Depleted
Environmental issue
Producer
7. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Nitrogen fixation
Natural Resource
Groundwater
Non-biodegradable
8. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Nonrecyclable
Biodegradable
Extinction
9. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Biodiversity
Famine
Subsistence farmers
10. Resources supplied by nature
Consumer
Natural Resource
Precipitation
Renewable resources
11. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Data table
Renewable resource
Predation
12. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Biodiversity
Groundwater
Predation
Carrying capacity
13. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Grains
Tragedy of the commons
Endangered species
Renewable resources
14. The effect of the IV
Immigration
Carnivore
Environmental issue
Dependent variable
15. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Yield
Data table
Predator
Endangered species
16. Moving into a population
Recyclable
Fossil fuel
Tragedy of the commons
Immigration
17. The largest population that an area can support
Mutualism
Omnivore
Primary succession
Carrying capacity
18. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Immigration
Temperature
Geothermal energy
19. Something that breaks down into soil
Evaporation
Herbivore
Poaching
Biodegradable
20. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Control Group
Immigration
Famine
21. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Risk assessment
Selective cutting
Ecosystem
Host
22. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Prey
Species
Depleted
Greenhouse effect
23. Leaving a population
Evaporation
Emigration
Climate
Agriculture Revolution
24. Mass destruction of most species
Extinction
Natural selection
Mass extinctions
Population
25. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Bar graph
Climate
Extinction
26. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Dependent variable
Groundwater
Famine
Food chain
27. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Control Group
Major food nutrients
Poaching
Agriculture
28. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Extinction
Omnivore
Ecological footprint
Subsistence farmers
29. The number of different species in a given area
Developed countries
Biodiversity
Nonrenewable resource
Global warming
30. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Developing countries
Experimental error
Agriculture Revolution
Efficiency
31. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Natural selection
Succession
Column Graph
Efficiency
32. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Environmental Science
Fossil fuel
Geothermal energy
33. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Nonrenewable resource
Carrying capacity
Abiotic factor
34. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Scavenger
Subsistence farmers
Growth rate
35. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Natural resource
Scatter graph
Developing countries
Efficiency
36. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Limiting factor
Primary succession
Major food nutrients
Consumer
37. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Predation
Natural Resource
Commensalism
38. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Dispersal
Scavenger
Global warming
39. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Endangered species
Consumer
Competition
40. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Growth rate
Sustainability
Climate
41. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Keystone species
Emigration
Producer
Food chain
42. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Adaptations
43. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Succession
Parasitism
Tragedy of the commons
Abiotic factor
44. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Biome
Adaptations
Water cycle
Nonrenewable resource
45. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Abiotic factor
Host
Habitat
46. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Data table
Adaptations
Experimental Groups
Global warming
47. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Symbiosis
Diet
Geothermal energy
Environmental issue
48. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Grains
Ecology
Recyclable
Estuary
49. Organism that is killed
Prey
Herbivore
Dependent variable
Environmental issue
50. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Groundwater
Environmental issue
Secondary succession
Growth rate