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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A consumer that eats only animals
Biodiversity
Carnivore
Grains
Independent variable
2. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Species
Developed countries
Efficiency
Biodegradable
3. Organism that is killed
Immigration
Biotic factor
Diet
Prey
4. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Decomposer
Dispersal
Carrying capacity
Evaporation
5. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Omnivore
Non-biodegradable
Data table
6. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Endangered species
Estuary
Biotic factor
Primary succession
7. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Competition
human error
Temperature
8. The rate of which a plant grows at
Biotic factor
Growth rate
Decomposer
Predator
9. The variable that you manipulate
Selective cutting
Independent variable
Dispersal
Limiting factor
10. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Natural Resource
Scatter graph
Producer
11. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
Green revolution
Grains
12. Flaw in design of procedure
Natural Resource
Selective cutting
Subsistence farmers
Experimental error
13. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Parasite
Mass extinctions
Keystone species
14. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Fossil fuel
Experimental error
Green revolution
15. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Column Graph
Control Group
Recyclable
Risk assessment
16. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Mutualism
Developing countries
Yield
Scatter graph
17. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Nonrenewable resource
Host
Secondary succession
Omnivore
18. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Food chain
Developed countries
Consumer
Yield
19. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Nonrenewable resource
Geothermal energy
Dependent variable
Threatened species
20. Mistake in following procedure
Extinction
human error
Developed countries
Competition
21. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Developing countries
Global warming
Column Graph
Consumer
22. A living part of an organism's habitat
Nonrecyclable
Emigration
Biotic factor
Scavenger
23. Leaving a population
Emigration
Poaching
Niche
Pioneer species
24. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Community
Predation
Agriculture Revolution
25. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Decomposer
Hunters and Gatherers
Developed countries
26. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Fossil fuel
Data table
Threatened species
Mutualism
27. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Pioneer species
Food chain
Greenhouse effect
Ecology
28. Moving into a population
Developing countries
Immigration
Precipitation
Mutualism
29. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Energy conservation
Temperature
Prey
Pie graph
30. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Climate
Bar graph
Natural selection
31. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Agriculture Revolution
Succession
Consumer
Natural resource
32. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Competition
Habitat
Green revolution
33. A consumer that eats only plants
Tragedy of the commons
Nonrecyclable
Herbivore
Environmental issue
34. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Column Graph
Poaching
Grains
Omnivore
35. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Diet
Symbiosis
Habitat
Decomposer
36. Anything that harms an organism
Pie graph
Adaptations
Pollution
Tragedy of the commons
37. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Fossil fuel
Tragedy of the commons
Keystone species
Scatter graph
38. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Independent variable
Estuary
Predation
39. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Parasitism
Famine
Community
Commensalism
40. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Industrial Revolution
Prey
41. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Supply and demand
Hunters and Gatherers
Adaptations
Primary succession
42. The number of different species in a given area
Major food nutrients
Agriculture Revolution
Biodiversity
Greenhouse effect
43. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Species
Climate
Industrial Revolution
Biotic factor
44. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Immigration
Nonrenewable resource
Commensalism
45. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Evaporation
Extinction
Climate
Groundwater
46. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Immigration
Keystone species
Limiting factor
Ecosystem
47. The largest population that an area can support
Climate
Omnivore
Carrying capacity
Consumer
48. Heat from the Earth's interior
Abiotic factor
Food web
Geothermal energy
Dependent variable
49. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Experimental error
Population
Developing countries
50. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Environmental Science
Symbiosis
Extinction
Dispersal