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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Competition
Developing countries
Carnivore
Threatened species
2. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
human error
Parasitism
Hunters and Gatherers
Limiting factor
3. Heat from the Earth's interior
Groundwater
Geothermal energy
Symbiosis
Bar graph
4. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Independent variable
Data table
Endangered species
5. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Host
Supply and demand
Niche
6. The variable that you manipulate
Renewable resource
Omnivore
Hunters and Gatherers
Independent variable
7. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Nonrecyclable
Biome
Condensation
8. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Predator
Risk assessment
Precipitation
Omnivore
9. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Famine
Condensation
Carnivore
Subsistence farmers
10. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Biodegradable
Succession
Selective cutting
11. Moving into a population
Agriculture Revolution
Risk assessment
Immigration
Precipitation
12. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Natural Resource
Sustainability
Biodiversity
13. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Nonrenewable resource
Famine
Ecology
Efficiency
14. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Food chain
Independent variable
Nitrogen fixation
15. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Independent variable
Malnutrition
Decomposer
Consumer
16. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Famine
Recyclable
Parasite
Emigration
17. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Industrial Revolution
Emigration
Groundwater
Mutualism
18. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Parasitism
Independent variable
Biotic factor
Climate
19. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Scavenger
Major food nutrients
Ecology
Green revolution
20. Leaving a population
Malnutrition
Agriculture
Primary succession
Emigration
21. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Abiotic factor
Green revolution
Experimental error
Malnutrition
22. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Emigration
Environmental Science
Scatter graph
Agriculture Revolution
23. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Natural Resource
Carnivore
Nonrenewable resource
24. An organism that can make it's own food
Adaptations
Habitat
Producer
Efficiency
25. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Energy conservation
Nonrenewable resource
Non-biodegradable
Ecosystem
26. Mass destruction of most species
Carnivore
Control Group
Experimental Groups
Mass extinctions
27. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Line graph
Food chain
Mass extinctions
Environmental issue
28. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Host
Biome
Community
Agriculture Revolution
29. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Ecological footprint
Line graph
Extinction
Biodiversity
30. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Experimental Groups
Nonrecyclable
Species
Ecosystem
31. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Yield
Endangered species
Temperature
Nonrenewable resource
32. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Ecology
Water cycle
Food chain
Precipitation
33. A consumer that eats only plants
Extinction
Grains
Herbivore
Endangered species
34. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Natural selection
Parasitism
Competition
Famine
35. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Geothermal energy
Tragedy of the commons
Renewable resources
Selective cutting
36. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Control Group
Primary succession
Nonrenewable resource
Nonrecyclable
37. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Independent variable
Experimental Groups
Estuary
38. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Abiotic factor
Experimental error
Limiting factor
Food web
39. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Mutualism
Global warming
Bar graph
40. The effect of the IV
Parasite
Mass extinctions
Dependent variable
Geothermal energy
41. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Estuary
Climate
Dispersal
Non-biodegradable
42. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Symbiosis
Biome
Secondary succession
Succession
43. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Geothermal energy
Estuary
Commensalism
Temperature
44. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Herbivore
Greenhouse effect
Green revolution
Diet
45. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Food web
Famine
Scavenger
46. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Groundwater
Control Group
Yield
Keystone species
47. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Biodiversity
Column Graph
Natural resource
Biodiversity
48. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Groundwater
Grains
Industrial Revolution
Consumer
49. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Risk assessment
Sustainability
Non-biodegradable
Experimental error
50. The largest population that an area can support
Cost benefit analysis
Geothermal energy
Major food nutrients
Carrying capacity
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