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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Possible to use again
Hunters and Gatherers
Recyclable
Agriculture Revolution
Energy conservation
2. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Natural Resource
Pioneer species
Evaporation
Agriculture
3. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Adaptations
Cost benefit analysis
Pie graph
4. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Population
Non-biodegradable
Condensation
Water cycle
5. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Developed countries
Biodegradable
Prey
6. Organism that is killed
Control Group
Decomposer
Prey
Endangered species
7. Heat from the Earth's interior
Renewable resource
Pollution
Geothermal energy
Growth rate
8. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Limiting factor
Competition
Growth rate
Keystone species
9. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Consumer
Risk assessment
Pollution
Water cycle
10. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Estuary
Commensalism
Primary succession
Experimental error
11. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Ecology
Renewable resources
Food chain
Natural selection
12. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Hunters and Gatherers
Greenhouse effect
Selective cutting
Omnivore
13. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Water cycle
Condensation
Primary succession
14. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Environmental issue
Natural resource
Selective cutting
Condensation
15. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Population
Symbiosis
Major food nutrients
Cost benefit analysis
16. All the different populations that live together in an area
Green revolution
Extinction
Emigration
Community
17. A relationship in which both species benefit
Scatter graph
Mutualism
Endangered species
Threatened species
18. Flaw in design of procedure
Environmental issue
Dependent variable
Biodiversity
Experimental error
19. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Yield
Environmental issue
Omnivore
20. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Renewable resource
Agriculture Revolution
Habitat
Agriculture
21. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Predator
Developed countries
Greenhouse effect
Energy conservation
22. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Keystone species
Agriculture Revolution
Experimental Groups
23. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
human error
Carrying capacity
Predator
Experimental Groups
24. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Consumer
Tragedy of the commons
Diet
Niche
25. All the members of one species in a particular area
Succession
Secondary succession
Temperature
Population
26. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Malnutrition
Consumer
Succession
Sustainability
27. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
human error
Limiting factor
Control Group
Nitrogen fixation
28. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Geothermal energy
Environmental Science
Food chain
Experimental error
29. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Recyclable
Energy conservation
Developing countries
Global warming
30. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Food web
Poaching
Grains
31. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Estuary
Independent variable
Food web
32. The practice of reducing energy use
Independent variable
Energy conservation
Agriculture Revolution
Famine
33. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Producer
Energy conservation
34. A consumer that eats only animals
Producer
Pollution
Carnivore
Evaporation
35. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Tragedy of the commons
Immigration
Nitrogen fixation
Major food nutrients
36. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Tragedy of the commons
Succession
Depleted
Supply and demand
37. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Niche
Control Group
Extinction
38. Mistake in following procedure
Endangered species
Independent variable
Succession
human error
39. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Energy conservation
Sustainability
Line graph
Nonrenewable resource
40. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Nonrenewable resource
Line graph
Pioneer species
Agriculture Revolution
41. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Water cycle
Depleted
Symbiosis
42. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Consumer
Biome
Malnutrition
43. Leaving a population
Emigration
Herbivore
Predator
Supply and demand
44. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Control Group
Immigration
Dependent variable
45. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Limiting factor
Environmental issue
Omnivore
Growth rate
46. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Scavenger
Nitrogen fixation
Column Graph
Independent variable
47. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Prey
Column Graph
Evaporation
Consumer
48. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Diet
Biome
Renewable resources
Water cycle
49. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Carnivore
Secondary succession
Biodiversity
Malnutrition
50. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
human error
Growth rate
Scatter graph
Natural Resource