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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Bar graph
Geothermal energy
Biome
2. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Nitrogen fixation
Agriculture
Climate
Sustainability
3. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Decomposer
Limiting factor
Experimental Groups
Biodegradable
4. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Endangered species
Niche
Column Graph
Parasitism
5. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Scavenger
Risk assessment
Renewable resources
Nonrenewable resource
6. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Limiting factor
Succession
Mutualism
Scavenger
7. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Commensalism
Experimental error
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Climate
8. Possible to use again
Consumer
Recyclable
Precipitation
Endangered species
9. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biodiversity
Biome
Cost benefit analysis
Condensation
10. Resources supplied by nature
Growth rate
Food web
Secondary succession
Natural Resource
11. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Adaptations
Ecosystem
Food web
Data table
12. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Species
Condensation
Groundwater
Pioneer species
13. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Symbiosis
Endangered species
Parasite
Primary succession
14. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Abiotic factor
Pie graph
Green revolution
15. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Biome
Yield
Biotic factor
Column Graph
16. A living part of an organism's habitat
Immigration
Decomposer
Biotic factor
Pie graph
17. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Herbivore
Cost benefit analysis
Predator
18. Moving into a population
Immigration
Ecological footprint
Condensation
Mutualism
19. Mass destruction of most species
Immigration
Mutualism
Mass extinctions
Abiotic factor
20. Leaving a population
Hunters and Gatherers
Endangered species
Emigration
Sustainability
21. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Ecosystem
Biodegradable
Nonrecyclable
Natural selection
22. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Green revolution
Biodiversity
Niche
Recyclable
23. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Commensalism
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Host
Line graph
24. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Famine
Precipitation
Predator
Emigration
25. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Grains
Ecosystem
Predation
26. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Biodegradable
Subsistence farmers
Limiting factor
Developed countries
27. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Developing countries
Nonrenewable resource
Predation
Sustainability
28. The first species to populate the area
Keystone species
Efficiency
Biodiversity
Pioneer species
29. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Renewable resource
Parasite
Pie graph
Geothermal energy
30. A consumer that eats only animals
Control Group
Dispersal
Carnivore
Natural selection
31. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Adaptations
Scatter graph
Hunters and Gatherers
Biodegradable
32. Anything that harms an organism
Subsistence farmers
Endangered species
Pollution
Parasite
33. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
human error
Carnivore
Depleted
Renewable resource
34. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Agriculture Revolution
Geothermal energy
Green revolution
35. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Nitrogen fixation
Poaching
Environmental issue
Decomposer
36. The number of different species in a given area
Mass extinctions
Biodiversity
Ecosystem
Producer
37. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Omnivore
Diet
Condensation
Food chain
38. Heat from the Earth's interior
Geothermal energy
Secondary succession
Population
Keystone species
39. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Major food nutrients
Primary succession
Sustainability
Host
40. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Recyclable
Condensation
Abiotic factor
Primary succession
41. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Commensalism
Environmental issue
Ecosystem
42. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Herbivore
Climate
Community
43. All the different populations that live together in an area
Greenhouse effect
Hunters and Gatherers
Supply and demand
Community
44. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
human error
Biodiversity
Selective cutting
Developed countries
45. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Mass extinctions
Condensation
Endangered species
Pie graph
46. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Omnivore
Endangered species
Water cycle
Biome
47. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Line graph
Population
Mutualism
Grains
48. A consumer that eats only plants
Evaporation
Secondary succession
Herbivore
Dispersal
49. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Non-biodegradable
Agriculture Revolution
Column Graph
Agriculture
50. The amount of food production in a given area
Evaporation
Green revolution
Yield
Famine