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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Organism that does the killing
Population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Predator
Scavenger
2. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Depleted
Evaporation
Nonrenewable resource
Worlds 5 Main Foods
3. A relationship in which both species benefit
Nitrogen fixation
Scavenger
Niche
Mutualism
4. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Natural selection
Risk assessment
Threatened species
Commensalism
5. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Bar graph
Efficiency
Selective cutting
Natural resource
6. The practice of reducing energy use
Tragedy of the commons
Energy conservation
Developing countries
Grains
7. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Risk assessment
Dependent variable
Nonrenewable resource
Non-biodegradable
8. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nonrecyclable
Parasitism
Developed countries
9. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Ecosystem
Agriculture
Dispersal
10. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Food chain
Renewable resources
Groundwater
Omnivore
11. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Poaching
Supply and demand
Experimental Groups
12. Heat from the Earth's interior
Experimental Groups
Geothermal energy
Condensation
Nonrenewable resource
13. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Growth rate
Predation
Natural Resource
Tragedy of the commons
14. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Poaching
Threatened species
Keystone species
15. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Pioneer species
Selective cutting
Scatter graph
Symbiosis
16. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Adaptations
Malnutrition
Water cycle
Condensation
17. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Carrying capacity
Grains
Environmental Science
18. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Omnivore
Emigration
Parasite
Keystone species
19. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Agriculture Revolution
Habitat
Endangered species
Primary succession
20. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Dependent variable
Emigration
Host
Grains
21. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Evaporation
Geothermal energy
Environmental issue
Secondary succession
22. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Environmental issue
Non-biodegradable
Dispersal
23. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Biodegradable
Natural Resource
Immigration
Hunters and Gatherers
24. Organism that is killed
Developing countries
Selective cutting
Prey
Renewable resources
25. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Hunters and Gatherers
Decomposer
Ecology
26. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Famine
Depleted
Scatter graph
Scavenger
27. The amount of food production in a given area
Food web
Yield
Line graph
Mutualism
28. A living part of an organism's habitat
Supply and demand
Biotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
Green revolution
29. The largest population that an area can support
Growth rate
Column Graph
Carrying capacity
Community
30. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Emigration
Ecosystem
Omnivore
Experimental error
31. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Precipitation
Abiotic factor
Scavenger
32. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Data table
Tragedy of the commons
Food web
Control Group
33. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Secondary succession
human error
Producer
Efficiency
34. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Supply and demand
Biome
Immigration
Natural resource
35. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Global warming
Developed countries
Energy conservation
Decomposer
36. Moving into a population
Immigration
Efficiency
Mutualism
Environmental issue
37. A consumer that eats only animals
Line graph
Predation
Carnivore
Prey
38. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Herbivore
Competition
Precipitation
39. The first species to populate the area
Ecological footprint
Mutualism
Pioneer species
Grains
40. Something that breaks down into soil
Carnivore
Industrial Revolution
Biodegradable
Nonrecyclable
41. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Major food nutrients
Natural Resource
Environmental Science
42. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Selective cutting
Food chain
Water cycle
Predator
43. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Producer
Control Group
Mass extinctions
44. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Data table
Symbiosis
Subsistence farmers
45. All the members of one species in a particular area
Commensalism
Adaptations
Population
Yield
46. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Diet
Cost benefit analysis
Depleted
47. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Scatter graph
Environmental issue
Biodiversity
Consumer
48. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Biodiversity
Omnivore
Renewable resources
49. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Environmental Science
Omnivore
Recyclable
50. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Carnivore
Greenhouse effect
Commensalism
Poaching