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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Major food nutrients
Renewable resource
Species
Niche
2. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Food web
Poaching
Community
Succession
3. All the members of one species in a particular area
Global warming
Population
Non-biodegradable
Fossil fuel
4. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Biodiversity
Emigration
Fossil fuel
Ecology
5. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Scavenger
Mass extinctions
Yield
6. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Pie graph
Green revolution
Nitrogen fixation
Scavenger
7. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodiversity
Pie graph
8. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Parasitism
Biodiversity
Immigration
9. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Groundwater
Extinction
Climate
Experimental Groups
10. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Natural selection
Dispersal
Primary succession
11. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Adaptations
Natural selection
Mass extinctions
Estuary
12. Something that breaks down into soil
Natural Resource
Yield
Condensation
Biodegradable
13. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Extinction
Abiotic factor
human error
Natural Resource
14. Flaw in design of procedure
Mutualism
Host
Experimental error
Emigration
15. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Experimental error
Renewable resource
Carrying capacity
16. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Poaching
Food web
Temperature
Control Group
17. Mistake in following procedure
Supply and demand
Water cycle
human error
Agriculture Revolution
18. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Experimental Groups
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Natural resource
Keystone species
19. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Keystone species
Adaptations
Nitrogen fixation
Pie graph
20. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Bar graph
Adaptations
Secondary succession
Consumer
21. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Renewable resources
Column Graph
Energy conservation
Ecological footprint
22. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Industrial Revolution
Parasitism
Commensalism
Nonrenewable resource
23. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Nonrenewable resource
Symbiosis
Fossil fuel
Competition
24. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Precipitation
Food web
Mass extinctions
25. The rate of which a plant grows at
Industrial Revolution
Biodiversity
Growth rate
Global warming
26. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Consumer
Fossil fuel
Renewable resource
Water cycle
27. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Green revolution
Pie graph
Limiting factor
Major food nutrients
28. The variable that you manipulate
Symbiosis
Independent variable
Energy conservation
Immigration
29. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Agriculture
Groundwater
Tragedy of the commons
Nitrogen fixation
30. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Competition
Selective cutting
Environmental issue
Keystone species
31. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Extinction
Biodiversity
Biotic factor
32. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Nitrogen fixation
Agriculture Revolution
Population
Food web
33. Organism that is killed
Data table
Extinction
Parasitism
Prey
34. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Community
Prey
Temperature
Scatter graph
35. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Temperature
Biome
Mass extinctions
36. The number of different species in an area
Biodegradable
Host
Consumer
Biodiversity
37. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Nonrecyclable
Agriculture Revolution
Ecosystem
Environmental Science
38. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Growth rate
Predator
Parasitism
39. The first species to populate the area
Ecosystem
Pioneer species
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Poaching
40. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Keystone species
Adaptations
Precipitation
Biotic factor
41. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Population
Depleted
Temperature
Estuary
42. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Niche
Nonrenewable resource
Biome
Non-biodegradable
43. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Endangered species
Symbiosis
Omnivore
Agriculture Revolution
44. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Efficiency
Natural selection
Cost benefit analysis
Precipitation
45. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Adaptations
Temperature
Endangered species
Growth rate
46. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Secondary succession
Nonrenewable resource
Prey
Ecological footprint
47. Organism that does the killing
Natural selection
Producer
Predator
Emigration
48. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Natural resource
Risk assessment
Greenhouse effect
Biome
49. A consumer that eats only animals
Pie graph
Carnivore
Keystone species
Depleted
50. A consumer that eats only plants
Water cycle
Herbivore
Agriculture Revolution
Pollution
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