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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Organism that is killed
Depleted
Renewable resources
Prey
Endangered species
2. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Tragedy of the commons
Decomposer
Natural resource
3. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Subsistence farmers
Commensalism
Selective cutting
Pioneer species
4. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Industrial Revolution
Hunters and Gatherers
Poaching
5. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Secondary succession
Data table
Prey
Developed countries
6. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Natural Resource
Food chain
Growth rate
7. Possible to use again
Depleted
Ecological footprint
Recyclable
Immigration
8. Moving into a population
Nonrenewable resource
Immigration
Environmental issue
Nonrecyclable
9. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Omnivore
Column Graph
Pioneer species
Hunters and Gatherers
10. A consumer that eats only animals
Mutualism
Carnivore
Predation
Greenhouse effect
11. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Emigration
Temperature
Precipitation
Niche
12. Resources supplied by nature
Experimental error
Geothermal energy
Natural Resource
Global warming
13. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Predator
Temperature
Food web
Energy conservation
14. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Yield
Host
Carnivore
15. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Competition
Environmental Science
Water cycle
Extinction
16. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Parasitism
Natural resource
Depleted
17. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Succession
Ecosystem
Ecology
18. The variable that you manipulate
Primary succession
Diet
Independent variable
Nitrogen fixation
19. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Biome
Poaching
Green revolution
20. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Experimental Groups
Keystone species
Nonrenewable resource
Green revolution
21. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Geothermal energy
Symbiosis
Abiotic factor
Data table
22. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Environmental issue
Dispersal
Tragedy of the commons
Sustainability
23. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Natural Resource
Yield
Primary succession
Diet
24. The practice of reducing energy use
Industrial Revolution
Energy conservation
Recyclable
Experimental error
25. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Pie graph
Depleted
Renewable resource
Non-biodegradable
26. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Efficiency
Developing countries
Ecology
Adaptations
27. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Habitat
Pioneer species
Major food nutrients
28. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Consumer
Environmental Science
Ecological footprint
Biodiversity
29. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Condensation
Water cycle
Niche
Greenhouse effect
30. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Symbiosis
Water cycle
Independent variable
Abiotic factor
31. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Hunters and Gatherers
Green revolution
Commensalism
32. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Famine
Fossil fuel
33. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Limiting factor
Green revolution
Risk assessment
Subsistence farmers
34. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Column Graph
Efficiency
Renewable resources
Habitat
35. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Condensation
Secondary succession
Groundwater
Worlds 5 Main Foods
36. Anything that harms an organism
Industrial Revolution
Prey
Pollution
Experimental error
37. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Predation
Evaporation
Condensation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
38. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Threatened species
Nonrenewable resource
Tragedy of the commons
39. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Malnutrition
Groundwater
Immigration
40. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Emigration
Succession
Ecosystem
Dispersal
41. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Environmental Science
Threatened species
Biodegradable
42. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Control Group
Greenhouse effect
Carnivore
Environmental Science
43. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Growth rate
Famine
Temperature
Dispersal
44. The rate of which a plant grows at
Extinction
Developing countries
Column Graph
Growth rate
45. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Recyclable
Scavenger
Emigration
Limiting factor
46. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Growth rate
Subsistence farmers
Bar graph
Parasitism
47. Mistake in following procedure
Data table
Natural Resource
human error
Climate
48. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Major food nutrients
Estuary
Host
Carrying capacity
49. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Symbiosis
Hunters and Gatherers
Experimental error
50. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Biodegradable
Producer
Greenhouse effect
Subsistence farmers