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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Geothermal energy
Omnivore
Commensalism
Food web
2. The largest population that an area can support
Biodegradable
Carrying capacity
Threatened species
Predation
3. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Renewable resources
Industrial Revolution
Green revolution
Predation
4. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Niche
Species
Dependent variable
Column Graph
5. A consumer that eats only plants
Depleted
Environmental Science
Estuary
Herbivore
6. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Scatter graph
Keystone species
Hunters and Gatherers
Tragedy of the commons
7. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Greenhouse effect
Scavenger
Limiting factor
8. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Bar graph
Competition
Carrying capacity
Species
9. The first species to populate the area
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
Pioneer species
Green revolution
10. Leaving a population
Selective cutting
Major food nutrients
Environmental Science
Emigration
11. Organism that does the killing
Mutualism
Diet
Predator
Food chain
12. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Sustainability
Hunters and Gatherers
Renewable resources
13. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Environmental issue
Abiotic factor
Condensation
Temperature
14. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Groundwater
Nonrecyclable
Abiotic factor
Cost benefit analysis
15. Heat from the Earth's interior
Data table
Agriculture Revolution
Geothermal energy
Hunters and Gatherers
16. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Bar graph
Ecology
Depleted
Biodegradable
17. Resources supplied by nature
Endangered species
Host
Subsistence farmers
Natural Resource
18. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Condensation
Greenhouse effect
Predation
Developing countries
19. Organism that is killed
Fossil fuel
Poaching
Developed countries
Prey
20. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Abiotic factor
Water cycle
Biodiversity
21. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Yield
Developing countries
Developed countries
Symbiosis
22. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Supply and demand
Primary succession
Predator
23. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Tragedy of the commons
Niche
Malnutrition
Biotic factor
24. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Secondary succession
Ecosystem
Hunters and Gatherers
25. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Mass extinctions
Natural resource
Biome
Nonrenewable resource
26. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Nonrenewable resource
Predation
Bar graph
Climate
27. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Adaptations
Producer
Selective cutting
Population
28. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Limiting factor
Emigration
Biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
29. Flaw in design of procedure
Biome
Ecology
Developing countries
Experimental error
30. All the different populations that live together in an area
Herbivore
Mass extinctions
Selective cutting
Community
31. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Biome
Commensalism
Data table
32. Something that breaks down into soil
Ecological footprint
Predation
Biodegradable
Selective cutting
33. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Bar graph
Poaching
Sustainability
Consumer
34. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Water cycle
Threatened species
Hunters and Gatherers
35. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Cost benefit analysis
Famine
Selective cutting
Depleted
36. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Host
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
37. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
human error
Adaptations
Hunters and Gatherers
Evaporation
38. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Hunters and Gatherers
Limiting factor
Growth rate
Host
39. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Nonrenewable resource
Biodegradable
Experimental Groups
Sustainability
40. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Developed countries
Decomposer
Ecology
41. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Control Group
Species
Nonrecyclable
Hunters and Gatherers
42. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Environmental issue
human error
Nonrenewable resource
Hunters and Gatherers
43. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Herbivore
Selective cutting
Scavenger
Subsistence farmers
44. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Ecological footprint
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nitrogen fixation
Depleted
45. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Hunters and Gatherers
Depleted
Poaching
46. The effect of the IV
Malnutrition
Limiting factor
Community
Dependent variable
47. A chart with bars
Pollution
Geothermal energy
Famine
Bar graph
48. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Global warming
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Carrying capacity
49. The number of different species in an area
Ecological footprint
Biodegradable
Condensation
Biodiversity
50. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Hunters and Gatherers
Emigration
Diet
Ecological footprint