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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Species
Ecology
Carnivore
Cost benefit analysis
2. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Data table
Renewable resource
Food chain
Commensalism
3. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Nitrogen fixation
Decomposer
Ecology
Climate
4. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Developed countries
Mass extinctions
Pie graph
Independent variable
5. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Major food nutrients
Environmental Science
Secondary succession
Line graph
6. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Nonrenewable resource
Parasitism
Experimental Groups
Predator
7. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Niche
Symbiosis
Environmental issue
Limiting factor
8. The practice of reducing energy use
Efficiency
human error
Environmental issue
Energy conservation
9. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Poaching
Nonrenewable resource
Recyclable
Global warming
10. Organism that is killed
Agriculture
human error
Prey
Pie graph
11. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Famine
Threatened species
Recyclable
12. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Greenhouse effect
Subsistence farmers
Biome
13. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Evaporation
Emigration
Parasite
Ecosystem
14. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Malnutrition
Growth rate
Depleted
15. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Control Group
Dependent variable
Nonrecyclable
16. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Greenhouse effect
Developed countries
Cost benefit analysis
Groundwater
17. An organism that can make it's own food
Precipitation
Natural Resource
Environmental issue
Producer
18. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Bar graph
Symbiosis
Pie graph
19. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Efficiency
Growth rate
Mutualism
20. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Natural selection
Precipitation
Yield
Mutualism
21. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Developing countries
Line graph
Geothermal energy
Industrial Revolution
22. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Efficiency
Risk assessment
Control Group
Primary succession
23. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Species
Secondary succession
Biodegradable
Malnutrition
24. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Symbiosis
Extinction
Environmental Science
Condensation
25. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Subsistence farmers
Endangered species
26. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Renewable resources
Natural selection
Subsistence farmers
27. The first species to populate the area
Succession
Climate
Pioneer species
Temperature
28. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Major food nutrients
Mass extinctions
Subsistence farmers
Environmental Science
29. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Experimental Groups
Population
Green revolution
Prey
30. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Agriculture Revolution
Biodegradable
Limiting factor
Renewable resources
31. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Depleted
Experimental error
Immigration
32. A chart with bars
Cost benefit analysis
Scatter graph
Bar graph
Growth rate
33. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Condensation
Renewable resource
Developing countries
Temperature
34. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Selective cutting
Mass extinctions
Risk assessment
Biome
35. Resources supplied by nature
Biodegradable
Natural Resource
Scavenger
Ecology
36. Anything that harms an organism
Predation
Agriculture
Pollution
Environmental issue
37. A consumer that eats only plants
Carrying capacity
Biodiversity
Supply and demand
Herbivore
38. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Bar graph
Control Group
Evaporation
39. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Climate
Pie graph
Species
Bar graph
40. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Producer
Extinction
Keystone species
Climate
41. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Developed countries
Biodiversity
Data table
Nonrecyclable
42. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Parasite
Carnivore
Limiting factor
43. The rate of which a plant grows at
Dependent variable
Growth rate
Extinction
Omnivore
44. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Habitat
Abiotic factor
Food web
Control Group
45. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Biodiversity
Experimental error
Symbiosis
46. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Biodegradable
Ecology
Non-biodegradable
Recyclable
47. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Famine
Threatened species
Consumer
Environmental Science
48. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Estuary
Groundwater
Dispersal
Host
49. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Renewable resource
Selective cutting
Ecology
Limiting factor
50. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Environmental Science
Nonrenewable resource
Renewable resource
Secondary succession