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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The effect of the IV
Nonrecyclable
Niche
Dependent variable
Ecological footprint
2. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Carrying capacity
Natural selection
Greenhouse effect
Species
3. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Habitat
Evaporation
Green revolution
Limiting factor
4. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Predator
Host
Decomposer
Precipitation
5. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Extinction
Condensation
Non-biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
6. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Sustainability
Column Graph
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Food chain
7. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Experimental error
Scatter graph
Global warming
Herbivore
8. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Competition
Experimental error
Selective cutting
9. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Temperature
Adaptations
Pie graph
Hunters and Gatherers
10. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Renewable resources
Tragedy of the commons
Climate
11. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Malnutrition
Developing countries
Renewable resources
Industrial Revolution
12. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Industrial Revolution
Mass extinctions
Keystone species
Green revolution
13. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Famine
Major food nutrients
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Cost benefit analysis
14. The largest population that an area can support
Tragedy of the commons
Carrying capacity
Primary succession
Habitat
15. Leaving a population
Herbivore
Keystone species
Emigration
Subsistence farmers
16. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Groundwater
Diet
Climate
Decomposer
17. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Host
Food web
human error
18. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Experimental Groups
Environmental Science
Producer
Endangered species
19. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Experimental Groups
Nonrenewable resource
Tragedy of the commons
Malnutrition
20. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Extinction
Parasite
Biome
Supply and demand
21. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Experimental error
Primary succession
Food chain
22. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Habitat
Endangered species
Estuary
23. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Natural Resource
Developed countries
Predation
24. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Climate
Major food nutrients
Ecological footprint
Famine
25. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Symbiosis
Niche
Sustainability
26. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Symbiosis
Developed countries
Malnutrition
Secondary succession
27. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Biome
Food chain
Secondary succession
28. A consumer that eats only animals
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Adaptations
Environmental issue
Carnivore
29. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Omnivore
Sustainability
Industrial Revolution
30. The number of different species in a given area
Dispersal
Famine
Biodiversity
Food chain
31. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Primary succession
Predation
Food chain
Nonrenewable resource
32. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Emigration
Green revolution
Ecological footprint
Population
33. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Natural Resource
Parasite
Commensalism
Line graph
34. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Dispersal
Cost benefit analysis
Independent variable
35. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Column Graph
Nonrecyclable
Natural resource
Selective cutting
36. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Hunters and Gatherers
Biome
Nitrogen fixation
Consumer
37. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Estuary
Community
Column Graph
38. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Carrying capacity
Host
Prey
Renewable resources
39. Organism that does the killing
Biodegradable
Groundwater
Predation
Predator
40. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Green revolution
Ecological footprint
Greenhouse effect
41. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Endangered species
Energy conservation
Predation
Food chain
42. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Risk assessment
Biotic factor
Developed countries
43. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Biome
Sustainability
Renewable resource
Hunters and Gatherers
44. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Environmental issue
Parasite
Immigration
Extinction
45. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Hunters and Gatherers
Consumer
Climate
Dispersal
46. Something that breaks down into soil
Recyclable
Biodegradable
Prey
Ecology
47. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Species
Biodegradable
Parasitism
48. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Energy conservation
Industrial Revolution
Green revolution
49. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scatter graph
Agriculture Revolution
Scavenger
Global warming
50. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Mass extinctions
Predation
Condensation