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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Biodiversity
Consumer
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
2. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Green revolution
Natural selection
Carrying capacity
Non-biodegradable
3. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Precipitation
Commensalism
human error
4. A consumer that eats only animals
Consumer
Control Group
Succession
Carnivore
5. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Temperature
Control Group
Adaptations
Developing countries
6. Resources supplied by nature
Succession
Column Graph
Natural Resource
Biodiversity
7. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Host
Limiting factor
Data table
Pie graph
8. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Parasite
Renewable resource
Developed countries
Predation
9. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Condensation
human error
Diet
10. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Immigration
Nonrecyclable
Emigration
Efficiency
11. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Dispersal
Nitrogen fixation
Limiting factor
12. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Cost benefit analysis
Predation
Industrial Revolution
Developing countries
13. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Consumer
Industrial Revolution
Cost benefit analysis
Agriculture Revolution
14. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Line graph
Herbivore
Poaching
Food web
15. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Emigration
Energy conservation
Recyclable
16. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Biodiversity
Grains
Global warming
Competition
17. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Cost benefit analysis
Dependent variable
Community
18. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Cost benefit analysis
Grains
Pie graph
Groundwater
19. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Grains
Famine
Predation
20. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Developing countries
Tragedy of the commons
Temperature
21. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Renewable resource
Extinction
Natural Resource
22. Heat from the Earth's interior
Famine
Condensation
Geothermal energy
Scatter graph
23. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Biodiversity
Bar graph
Major food nutrients
24. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Predation
Abiotic factor
Environmental Science
Biome
25. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Tragedy of the commons
Limiting factor
Food web
Producer
26. The effect of the IV
Scavenger
Yield
Dependent variable
Dispersal
27. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Parasite
Temperature
Data table
Malnutrition
28. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Climate
Predator
Greenhouse effect
29. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Natural resource
Agriculture Revolution
Carnivore
Precipitation
30. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Nonrenewable resource
Consumer
Column Graph
31. A chart with bars
Keystone species
Emigration
Subsistence farmers
Bar graph
32. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Depleted
Scatter graph
Scavenger
Predation
33. Mass destruction of most species
Yield
human error
Mass extinctions
Pioneer species
34. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Pioneer species
Carrying capacity
Consumer
35. Leaving a population
Precipitation
Major food nutrients
Emigration
Developing countries
36. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Agriculture Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Natural resource
Groundwater
37. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Carrying capacity
Decomposer
Immigration
Renewable resources
38. Flaw in design of procedure
Greenhouse effect
Independent variable
Population
Experimental error
39. The largest population that an area can support
Niche
Carrying capacity
Biodiversity
Diet
40. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Agriculture
Nitrogen fixation
Evaporation
Estuary
41. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Carrying capacity
Mass extinctions
Developed countries
Food chain
42. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Efficiency
Pioneer species
Selective cutting
Prey
43. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Evaporation
Supply and demand
Species
44. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Tragedy of the commons
Scatter graph
Column Graph
Global warming
45. A consumer that eats only plants
Biodiversity
Herbivore
Mutualism
Worlds 5 Main Foods
46. All the members of one species in a particular area
Predation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Experimental Groups
Population
47. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Recyclable
Bar graph
Green revolution
48. A living part of an organism's habitat
Mutualism
Succession
Global warming
Biotic factor
49. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Scatter graph
Developing countries
Habitat
Herbivore
50. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Sustainability
Nonrenewable resource
Water cycle
Pollution