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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Developing countries
Precipitation
Predator
Scatter graph
2. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Consumer
Producer
Control Group
Pie graph
3. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Primary succession
Data table
Condensation
Hunters and Gatherers
4. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Predation
Emigration
Renewable resources
5. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Geothermal energy
Poaching
Renewable resource
6. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Limiting factor
Nonrenewable resource
Natural Resource
7. All the members of one species in a particular area
Non-biodegradable
Symbiosis
Immigration
Population
8. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Biodiversity
Groundwater
Adaptations
Industrial Revolution
9. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Renewable resources
Depleted
Sustainability
Food web
10. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Herbivore
Emigration
Niche
11. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Secondary succession
Hunters and Gatherers
Agriculture Revolution
12. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Nonrenewable resource
Renewable resource
Commensalism
Ecological footprint
13. A living part of an organism's habitat
Greenhouse effect
Subsistence farmers
Limiting factor
Biotic factor
14. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Renewable resources
Limiting factor
Symbiosis
15. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Risk assessment
Depleted
Environmental Science
Sustainability
16. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Evaporation
Column Graph
Cost benefit analysis
Nonrecyclable
17. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Green revolution
Tragedy of the commons
Condensation
Species
18. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Carnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Producer
19. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Nonrecyclable
Dispersal
Extinction
Habitat
20. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Decomposer
Commensalism
Experimental Groups
Host
21. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Biodegradable
Ecosystem
Growth rate
Adaptations
22. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Selective cutting
Sustainability
Parasitism
Dispersal
23. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Biodegradable
Host
Primary succession
24. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Selective cutting
Efficiency
Column Graph
25. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Biodiversity
Biodegradable
Climate
Adaptations
26. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Nonrenewable resource
Diet
Malnutrition
Tragedy of the commons
27. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Predator
Predation
Recyclable
28. Anything that harms an organism
Biotic factor
Threatened species
Pollution
Scatter graph
29. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Non-biodegradable
Parasite
Mass extinctions
30. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Depleted
Nonrenewable resource
Primary succession
Precipitation
31. Possible to use again
Threatened species
Recyclable
Major food nutrients
Niche
32. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Natural resource
Secondary succession
Non-biodegradable
33. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Secondary succession
Estuary
Independent variable
34. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Agriculture Revolution
Scatter graph
Endangered species
Subsistence farmers
35. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Experimental Groups
Supply and demand
Poaching
Grains
36. All the different populations that live together in an area
Symbiosis
Predation
Community
Abiotic factor
37. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Control Group
Decomposer
Developing countries
Groundwater
38. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Biodegradable
Data table
Column Graph
Renewable resource
39. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Malnutrition
Fossil fuel
Parasitism
Tragedy of the commons
40. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Parasitism
Risk assessment
Dispersal
Ecology
41. Mistake in following procedure
Nonrenewable resource
human error
Experimental Groups
Subsistence farmers
42. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Developed countries
Symbiosis
Geothermal energy
Nonrenewable resource
43. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Environmental Science
Developing countries
Renewable resource
Developed countries
44. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Consumer
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
Greenhouse effect
45. A consumer that eats only plants
Primary succession
Herbivore
Ecological footprint
Agriculture
46. The effect of the IV
Climate
Dependent variable
Parasitism
Malnutrition
47. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Hunters and Gatherers
Carrying capacity
Poaching
Renewable resources
48. A relationship in which both species benefit
Biotic factor
Mutualism
Food chain
Herbivore
49. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Groundwater
Parasite
Developing countries
Natural resource
50. Leaving a population
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Emigration
Succession
Secondary succession