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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Parasite
Condensation
Nonrecyclable
Adaptations
2. A chart with bars
Community
Malnutrition
Ecosystem
Bar graph
3. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Threatened species
Abiotic factor
Fossil fuel
4. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Sustainability
Carrying capacity
Habitat
5. Flaw in design of procedure
Selective cutting
Experimental error
Extinction
Emigration
6. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Recyclable
Energy conservation
Geothermal energy
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Developed countries
Groundwater
Secondary succession
Hunters and Gatherers
8. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Famine
Threatened species
Water cycle
9. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Major food nutrients
Agriculture Revolution
Experimental error
10. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Biodiversity
Carrying capacity
Ecological footprint
Biodiversity
11. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Hunters and Gatherers
Malnutrition
Pollution
Control Group
12. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Major food nutrients
Pie graph
Selective cutting
Condensation
13. An organism that can make it's own food
Malnutrition
Omnivore
Abiotic factor
Producer
14. Something that breaks down into soil
Developed countries
Geothermal energy
Biodegradable
Temperature
15. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Risk assessment
Greenhouse effect
Decomposer
Water cycle
16. Mass destruction of most species
Ecology
Water cycle
human error
Mass extinctions
17. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Decomposer
Herbivore
Experimental Groups
Pie graph
18. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Threatened species
Parasite
Abiotic factor
19. Anything that harms an organism
Independent variable
Herbivore
Efficiency
Pollution
20. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Green revolution
Succession
Recyclable
Natural selection
21. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Industrial Revolution
Habitat
Bar graph
Green revolution
22. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Pollution
Non-biodegradable
Population
Ecosystem
23. Leaving a population
Parasite
Evaporation
Cost benefit analysis
Emigration
24. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Extinction
Nonrenewable resource
Yield
25. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Diet
Groundwater
Hunters and Gatherers
Prey
26. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Groundwater
Extinction
Experimental Groups
Green revolution
27. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Threatened species
Natural selection
Greenhouse effect
Species
28. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Herbivore
Nonrecyclable
Pie graph
29. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Depleted
Pollution
Grains
Mutualism
30. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Renewable resources
Precipitation
Groundwater
31. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Abiotic factor
Renewable resources
Herbivore
Depleted
32. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Host
Natural Resource
Major food nutrients
Grains
33. The practice of reducing energy use
Hunters and Gatherers
Energy conservation
Fossil fuel
Primary succession
34. The rate of which a plant grows at
Nonrenewable resource
Mutualism
Growth rate
Adaptations
35. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Renewable resource
Biome
Secondary succession
Ecosystem
36. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Data table
Pioneer species
Column Graph
37. Mistake in following procedure
Niche
human error
Biodiversity
Endangered species
38. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Global warming
Control Group
Predator
39. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Malnutrition
Producer
Hunters and Gatherers
Groundwater
40. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Food chain
Fossil fuel
Precipitation
41. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Natural resource
human error
Selective cutting
Predator
42. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Limiting factor
Symbiosis
Condensation
43. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Industrial Revolution
Predator
Depleted
44. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Bar graph
Cost benefit analysis
Scavenger
Nitrogen fixation
45. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Producer
Selective cutting
Evaporation
Nonrenewable resource
46. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Ecological footprint
Host
Biodegradable
47. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Tragedy of the commons
Malnutrition
Scavenger
48. Resources supplied by nature
Developing countries
Carnivore
Natural Resource
Extinction
49. All the members of one species in a particular area
Non-biodegradable
Population
Extinction
Agriculture
50. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Selective cutting
Fossil fuel
Poaching
Developed countries