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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Prey
Energy conservation
Food chain
Pie graph
2. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Experimental error
Predator
Yield
3. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Community
Symbiosis
Adaptations
4. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Nonrenewable resource
Major food nutrients
Risk assessment
Temperature
5. The effect of the IV
Pioneer species
Nonrenewable resource
Dependent variable
Energy conservation
6. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Nonrecyclable
Food chain
Ecosystem
Host
7. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Biodegradable
Yield
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Predation
8. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Scatter graph
Pioneer species
Risk assessment
9. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Threatened species
Competition
Pioneer species
Scavenger
10. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Independent variable
Data table
Recyclable
Diet
11. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Biome
Community
Evaporation
Mutualism
12. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Natural selection
Major food nutrients
Ecosystem
13. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Mutualism
Estuary
Environmental Science
Keystone species
14. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Extinction
Emigration
Environmental issue
Keystone species
15. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Predator
Natural Resource
Sustainability
Natural resource
16. Organism that is killed
Prey
Symbiosis
Dependent variable
Biodegradable
17. A consumer that eats only animals
Dependent variable
Extinction
Experimental error
Carnivore
18. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Temperature
Depleted
Growth rate
Dependent variable
19. A living part of an organism's habitat
Groundwater
Food web
Biotic factor
Mass extinctions
20. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Precipitation
Carnivore
Decomposer
21. An organism that can make it's own food
human error
Environmental Science
Adaptations
Producer
22. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Famine
Predation
human error
Primary succession
23. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Ecology
Line graph
Biome
24. Resources supplied by nature
Evaporation
Natural Resource
Carnivore
Species
25. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Niche
Pie graph
Line graph
Experimental Groups
26. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Omnivore
Food chain
Supply and demand
Greenhouse effect
27. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Threatened species
Species
Parasite
28. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Predator
Bar graph
Environmental Science
29. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Ecosystem
Carnivore
Climate
30. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Famine
Groundwater
Pie graph
Precipitation
31. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Competition
Mass extinctions
Scavenger
32. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Immigration
Prey
Pollution
33. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Scavenger
Succession
Mutualism
34. Moving into a population
Immigration
Estuary
Extinction
Selective cutting
35. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Primary succession
Commensalism
Nonrenewable resource
Bar graph
36. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Nonrenewable resource
Primary succession
Evaporation
Climate
37. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Bar graph
Greenhouse effect
Limiting factor
38. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Threatened species
Competition
Recyclable
Species
39. Mistake in following procedure
Bar graph
Scavenger
human error
Environmental Science
40. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Dependent variable
Predation
Parasitism
41. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Predation
Growth rate
Herbivore
42. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Renewable resources
Prey
Tragedy of the commons
Developed countries
43. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Diet
Adaptations
Nonrenewable resource
Hunters and Gatherers
44. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Adaptations
Grains
Dispersal
45. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Dependent variable
Host
Non-biodegradable
Greenhouse effect
46. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Growth rate
Global warming
Selective cutting
Data table
47. Anything that harms an organism
Limiting factor
Precipitation
Biodiversity
Pollution
48. Organism that does the killing
Energy conservation
Natural selection
Predator
Food chain
49. The amount of food production in a given area
Agriculture Revolution
Primary succession
Yield
Extinction
50. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Geothermal energy
Consumer
Symbiosis
Keystone species
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