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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Adaptations
Habitat
Mass extinctions
Developed countries
2. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Renewable resources
Parasitism
Major food nutrients
Natural Resource
3. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Ecosystem
Grains
Independent variable
4. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Population
Sustainability
Risk assessment
Major food nutrients
5. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Famine
Scavenger
Experimental Groups
Major food nutrients
6. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Commensalism
Growth rate
Host
7. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Threatened species
Parasite
Producer
Fossil fuel
8. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Species
Depleted
Fossil fuel
Extinction
9. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Groundwater
Agriculture Revolution
Biome
Community
10. The rate of which a plant grows at
Biodiversity
Growth rate
Natural Resource
Famine
11. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Evaporation
Predator
Data table
Ecological footprint
12. Organism that is killed
Prey
Primary succession
Green revolution
Nonrenewable resource
13. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Column Graph
Famine
Ecology
Non-biodegradable
14. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Community
Food chain
Grains
Abiotic factor
15. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural resource
Limiting factor
Temperature
16. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Depleted
Nonrenewable resource
Ecosystem
Diet
17. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Pioneer species
Recyclable
Predator
Competition
18. A consumer that eats only plants
Natural resource
Carrying capacity
Selective cutting
Herbivore
19. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Geothermal energy
Mass extinctions
Green revolution
Poaching
20. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Producer
Subsistence farmers
Greenhouse effect
Host
21. All the members of one species in a particular area
Subsistence farmers
Competition
Population
Pie graph
22. Mass destruction of most species
Species
Niche
Limiting factor
Mass extinctions
23. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Biome
Experimental error
Cost benefit analysis
Omnivore
24. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Cost benefit analysis
Immigration
Developing countries
Host
25. Moving into a population
Population
Parasite
Immigration
Ecological footprint
26. The number of different species in an area
Ecological footprint
Biodiversity
Developed countries
Pioneer species
27. The variable that you manipulate
Commensalism
Natural selection
Carrying capacity
Independent variable
28. Flaw in design of procedure
Supply and demand
Experimental error
Environmental Science
Symbiosis
29. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Emigration
Pie graph
Mass extinctions
Biodegradable
30. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Biotic factor
Threatened species
Cost benefit analysis
31. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Renewable resources
Growth rate
Nonrenewable resource
Biodegradable
32. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Greenhouse effect
Bar graph
Evaporation
33. The first species to populate the area
Carrying capacity
Commensalism
Pioneer species
Climate
34. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Competition
Condensation
Bar graph
Non-biodegradable
35. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Agriculture
Green revolution
Developing countries
Host
36. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Column Graph
Agriculture Revolution
Ecology
37. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Parasitism
Renewable resource
Climate
Habitat
38. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Developed countries
Nitrogen fixation
Sustainability
Competition
39. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Limiting factor
Abiotic factor
Global warming
Natural selection
40. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Renewable resource
Poaching
Nitrogen fixation
Recyclable
41. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Malnutrition
Water cycle
Dispersal
42. The number of different species in a given area
Competition
Mass extinctions
Biome
Biodiversity
43. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Producer
Population
Decomposer
Natural Resource
44. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Selective cutting
Dispersal
Developed countries
45. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Developed countries
Poaching
Parasitism
Growth rate
46. The largest population that an area can support
Famine
Carrying capacity
Major food nutrients
Dependent variable
47. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Succession
Green revolution
Precipitation
Symbiosis
48. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Data table
Omnivore
Greenhouse effect
Food web
49. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Natural Resource
Parasitism
Developing countries
Worlds 5 Main Foods
50. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Bar graph
Temperature
Predation
Emigration