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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Temperature
Adaptations
Carrying capacity
Renewable resources
2. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Precipitation
Subsistence farmers
Tragedy of the commons
Agriculture
3. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
human error
Cost benefit analysis
Parasite
Biome
4. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Poaching
Ecology
Control Group
5. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Predation
Tragedy of the commons
Column Graph
Biotic factor
6. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Line graph
Habitat
Endangered species
Recyclable
7. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Mass extinctions
Nonrenewable resource
Primary succession
Keystone species
8. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Endangered species
Food web
Scavenger
Selective cutting
9. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Scavenger
Geothermal energy
Immigration
10. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Consumer
Bar graph
Population
11. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Cost benefit analysis
Data table
Recyclable
Natural selection
12. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Decomposer
Succession
human error
13. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Mass extinctions
Herbivore
Symbiosis
Niche
14. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Extinction
Developed countries
Mutualism
15. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Famine
Abiotic factor
Experimental error
16. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Independent variable
Condensation
Agriculture Revolution
Developed countries
17. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Nonrenewable resource
Fossil fuel
Evaporation
Selective cutting
18. The largest population that an area can support
Parasite
Industrial Revolution
Carrying capacity
Succession
19. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Scatter graph
Population
Producer
20. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Biodegradable
Food web
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
21. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Biotic factor
Species
Scavenger
22. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Predation
Ecosystem
Estuary
Natural resource
23. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Consumer
Data table
Ecosystem
24. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Pioneer species
Commensalism
Supply and demand
25. A consumer that eats only animals
Food chain
Immigration
Carnivore
Subsistence farmers
26. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Environmental Science
Threatened species
Community
Abiotic factor
27. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Line graph
Host
Geothermal energy
Water cycle
28. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Ecosystem
Scavenger
Diet
Supply and demand
29. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Agriculture Revolution
Developed countries
Species
Bar graph
30. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Adaptations
Global warming
Limiting factor
Major food nutrients
31. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Niche
Scavenger
Biodegradable
Renewable resource
32. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Niche
Natural resource
Parasite
Nitrogen fixation
33. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Consumer
Control Group
Environmental Science
Temperature
34. Moving into a population
Geothermal energy
Immigration
Natural selection
Environmental issue
35. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Succession
Environmental issue
Efficiency
Tragedy of the commons
36. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Water cycle
Parasitism
Nonrecyclable
Groundwater
37. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Mutualism
Experimental error
Line graph
Subsistence farmers
38. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Food web
Selective cutting
Biome
Natural Resource
39. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Agriculture
Prey
Temperature
40. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Recyclable
Primary succession
Efficiency
Dependent variable
41. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Commensalism
Independent variable
Fossil fuel
Threatened species
42. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Carrying capacity
Tragedy of the commons
Malnutrition
Experimental Groups
43. All the members of one species in a particular area
Dependent variable
Succession
Energy conservation
Population
44. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Nonrenewable resource
Growth rate
Climate
Nonrenewable resource
45. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Malnutrition
Industrial Revolution
Extinction
Subsistence farmers
46. All the different populations that live together in an area
Threatened species
Risk assessment
Community
Greenhouse effect
47. Organism that is killed
Experimental error
Developed countries
Renewable resources
Prey
48. A relationship in which both species benefit
Abiotic factor
Mutualism
Bar graph
Column Graph
49. Heat from the Earth's interior
Agriculture Revolution
Experimental Groups
Geothermal energy
Renewable resource
50. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Greenhouse effect
Condensation
human error
Control Group