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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Global warming
Malnutrition
Major food nutrients
Grains
2. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Developing countries
Control Group
Risk assessment
Food chain
3. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Abiotic factor
Estuary
Secondary succession
Agriculture Revolution
4. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Emigration
Water cycle
Efficiency
Succession
5. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Green revolution
Scatter graph
Keystone species
Nonrenewable resource
6. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Groundwater
Yield
Experimental error
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Temperature
Limiting factor
Estuary
8. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Dependent variable
Diet
Keystone species
Sustainability
9. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Estuary
Renewable resources
Biodegradable
Environmental Science
10. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Ecological footprint
Community
Niche
11. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Cost benefit analysis
Supply and demand
Malnutrition
Nonrenewable resource
12. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
human error
Global warming
Climate
Independent variable
13. A living part of an organism's habitat
Population
Biotic factor
Immigration
Sustainability
14. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Developing countries
Efficiency
Poaching
Herbivore
15. The largest population that an area can support
Biodegradable
Abiotic factor
Biodegradable
Carrying capacity
16. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Primary succession
Developed countries
Ecosystem
Poaching
17. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Growth rate
Line graph
Precipitation
Fossil fuel
18. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Subsistence farmers
Control Group
Carrying capacity
19. The number of different species in an area
human error
Condensation
Symbiosis
Biodiversity
20. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Secondary succession
Developed countries
Immigration
Pioneer species
21. Heat from the Earth's interior
Predation
Developed countries
Geothermal energy
Species
22. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Industrial Revolution
human error
Adaptations
Pioneer species
23. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Estuary
Commensalism
Natural resource
24. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Nitrogen fixation
Ecological footprint
Temperature
Consumer
25. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Data table
Host
Greenhouse effect
Succession
26. Mass destruction of most species
Column Graph
Mass extinctions
Temperature
Food web
27. The amount of food production in a given area
Symbiosis
Yield
Natural selection
Ecology
28. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Line graph
Grains
Primary succession
Parasite
29. All the different populations that live together in an area
Immigration
Community
Independent variable
Parasite
30. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Threatened species
Experimental Groups
Environmental issue
Nonrecyclable
31. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Greenhouse effect
Selective cutting
Line graph
Predation
32. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Famine
Cost benefit analysis
Mass extinctions
Symbiosis
33. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Famine
Estuary
Competition
Environmental Science
34. A consumer that eats only animals
Environmental issue
Succession
Experimental Groups
Carnivore
35. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Secondary succession
Global warming
Keystone species
Natural Resource
36. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Carrying capacity
Pollution
Consumer
Non-biodegradable
37. A consumer that eats only plants
Agriculture Revolution
Herbivore
Independent variable
Secondary succession
38. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Diet
Industrial Revolution
Extinction
Agriculture
39. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Energy conservation
Line graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
40. Possible to use again
Data table
Recyclable
Major food nutrients
Supply and demand
41. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Primary succession
Limiting factor
Ecological footprint
Consumer
42. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Water cycle
Supply and demand
Poaching
Succession
43. Something that breaks down into soil
Carrying capacity
Biodegradable
Evaporation
Pie graph
44. All the members of one species in a particular area
Environmental Science
Green revolution
Evaporation
Population
45. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Precipitation
Immigration
Greenhouse effect
46. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Herbivore
Producer
Biodiversity
Precipitation
47. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Line graph
Niche
Biodiversity
Carrying capacity
48. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Scatter graph
Nitrogen fixation
Condensation
Bar graph
49. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Biotic factor
Decomposer
Precipitation
Threatened species
50. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Secondary succession
Geothermal energy
Tragedy of the commons
Symbiosis