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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Scavenger
Experimental error
Independent variable
2. Organism that does the killing
Independent variable
Predator
Natural Resource
Data table
3. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Environmental Science
Precipitation
Grains
Prey
4. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Environmental issue
Biome
Abiotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
5. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Fossil fuel
Natural selection
Growth rate
Niche
6. Something that breaks down into soil
Famine
Sustainability
Biodegradable
Diet
7. The first species to populate the area
Habitat
Climate
Groundwater
Pioneer species
8. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Food web
Global warming
Herbivore
Keystone species
9. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Agriculture
Commensalism
Pie graph
Control Group
10. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Data table
Succession
Host
Depleted
11. The practice of reducing energy use
Condensation
Energy conservation
Precipitation
Famine
12. Resources supplied by nature
Pioneer species
Biodiversity
Natural Resource
Biotic factor
13. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Experimental Groups
Consumer
Pollution
Biodiversity
14. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Mutualism
Competition
Temperature
Efficiency
15. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Scatter graph
Natural Resource
Grains
16. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
human error
Agriculture
Data table
Biodegradable
17. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Scavenger
Pollution
Non-biodegradable
18. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Host
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental issue
19. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Malnutrition
Hunters and Gatherers
Climate
Keystone species
20. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Independent variable
Nonrenewable resource
Cost benefit analysis
Fossil fuel
21. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Natural selection
Non-biodegradable
Line graph
Parasitism
22. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Parasite
Green revolution
Abiotic factor
23. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Extinction
Natural selection
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Host
24. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Habitat
Ecosystem
Food chain
25. The rate of which a plant grows at
Food chain
Growth rate
Dependent variable
Adaptations
26. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Limiting factor
Endangered species
Natural resource
Selective cutting
27. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Condensation
Energy conservation
Poaching
Tragedy of the commons
28. Anything that harms an organism
Carnivore
Global warming
Pollution
Major food nutrients
29. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Parasitism
Evaporation
Ecology
Pollution
30. All the members of one species in a particular area
Supply and demand
Threatened species
Population
Developed countries
31. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Sustainability
Emigration
Developed countries
Carnivore
32. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Famine
Diet
Global warming
33. Mass destruction of most species
Sustainability
Biome
Growth rate
Mass extinctions
34. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Energy conservation
Food chain
Biome
35. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Population
Decomposer
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
36. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Developing countries
Precipitation
Biodegradable
Omnivore
37. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Subsistence farmers
Ecology
Condensation
Global warming
38. Leaving a population
Emigration
Subsistence farmers
Depleted
Natural Resource
39. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Herbivore
Groundwater
Population
40. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Secondary succession
Parasite
Precipitation
Non-biodegradable
41. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Environmental Science
Omnivore
Line graph
Natural Resource
42. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Community
Omnivore
Biodiversity
43. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Parasite
Hunters and Gatherers
Environmental issue
Sustainability
44. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Environmental issue
Renewable resources
Carnivore
Cost benefit analysis
45. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Endangered species
Predation
Extinction
Yield
46. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Selective cutting
Geothermal energy
Industrial Revolution
47. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Threatened species
Geothermal energy
Niche
Environmental issue
48. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Green revolution
Selective cutting
Natural Resource
49. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Community
Selective cutting
Abiotic factor
Water cycle
50. A living part of an organism's habitat
Column Graph
Omnivore
Biotic factor
Predation