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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Nonrecyclable
Biodegradable
Bar graph
Abiotic factor
2. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Ecosystem
Carrying capacity
Condensation
3. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Producer
Ecology
Abiotic factor
4. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Greenhouse effect
Primary succession
Column Graph
5. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Global warming
Tragedy of the commons
Renewable resources
Developing countries
6. Anything that harms an organism
Community
Developing countries
Cost benefit analysis
Pollution
7. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Scavenger
Depleted
Condensation
Water cycle
8. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Growth rate
Species
Scatter graph
Predation
9. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Risk assessment
Carnivore
Secondary succession
Diet
10. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Line graph
Sustainability
Malnutrition
Growth rate
11. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Environmental issue
Mutualism
Predation
Predator
12. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Condensation
Data table
Parasite
13. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Parasite
Non-biodegradable
Supply and demand
Cost benefit analysis
14. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Species
Environmental Science
Diet
Estuary
15. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Independent variable
Food chain
Developing countries
16. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Immigration
human error
Parasitism
Primary succession
17. Possible to use again
Natural selection
Biodiversity
Developed countries
Recyclable
18. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Renewable resource
Limiting factor
Commensalism
Hunters and Gatherers
19. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Depleted
Renewable resources
Mass extinctions
Precipitation
20. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Environmental issue
Water cycle
Host
21. Organism that is killed
Renewable resources
Prey
Estuary
Famine
22. All the different populations that live together in an area
Species
Groundwater
Community
Control Group
23. An organism that can make it's own food
Line graph
Producer
Scavenger
Primary succession
24. Leaving a population
Column Graph
Renewable resource
Emigration
Species
25. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Abiotic factor
Industrial Revolution
Ecosystem
26. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Ecosystem
Immigration
Predator
Food web
27. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Experimental error
Niche
Endangered species
Recyclable
28. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Ecosystem
Consumer
Green revolution
Parasite
29. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Developing countries
Mass extinctions
Estuary
30. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Greenhouse effect
Ecological footprint
Yield
Cost benefit analysis
31. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Symbiosis
Competition
Evaporation
Precipitation
32. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Fossil fuel
Food chain
Agriculture
Efficiency
33. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Endangered species
Bar graph
Host
Limiting factor
34. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Decomposer
Scatter graph
Cost benefit analysis
Supply and demand
35. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Ecology
Sustainability
Estuary
Temperature
36. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Abiotic factor
Water cycle
Keystone species
37. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Keystone species
Scavenger
Energy conservation
Ecological footprint
38. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Producer
Tragedy of the commons
Pollution
Selective cutting
39. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Biotic factor
Developed countries
Yield
Dispersal
40. Moving into a population
Experimental error
Green revolution
Omnivore
Immigration
41. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Pioneer species
Non-biodegradable
Keystone species
Emigration
42. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Threatened species
Cost benefit analysis
Limiting factor
Grains
43. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasite
Habitat
Succession
Parasitism
44. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Host
Pollution
Dependent variable
Competition
45. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Succession
Species
Agriculture
Condensation
46. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Carrying capacity
Malnutrition
Experimental Groups
Niche
47. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Host
Keystone species
Renewable resource
Poaching
48. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Predation
Secondary succession
Commensalism
Mass extinctions
49. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Biodiversity
Parasitism
Pie graph
Succession
50. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Efficiency
Risk assessment
Selective cutting