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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. Organism that is killed
Habitat
Hunters and Gatherers
Prey
Fossil fuel
2. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Pie graph
Abiotic factor
Food web
Sustainability
3. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Symbiosis
Subsistence farmers
Parasitism
Succession
4. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Competition
Predation
Species
Experimental Groups
5. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Hunters and Gatherers
Producer
Sustainability
Mass extinctions
6. A consumer that eats only animals
Ecosystem
Global warming
Carnivore
Biotic factor
7. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Environmental Science
Hunters and Gatherers
Developed countries
Water cycle
8. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Food chain
Biome
Control Group
Emigration
9. A living part of an organism's habitat
Environmental Science
Experimental error
Biotic factor
Subsistence farmers
10. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Niche
Climate
Prey
Agriculture Revolution
11. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Pie graph
Dispersal
Host
12. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Temperature
Secondary succession
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Hunters and Gatherers
13. The largest population that an area can support
Commensalism
Supply and demand
Experimental error
Carrying capacity
14. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Omnivore
Food chain
15. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Water cycle
Primary succession
Experimental error
16. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Bar graph
Famine
Symbiosis
Adaptations
17. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Climate
Predator
Agriculture Revolution
18. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Abiotic factor
Ecology
Adaptations
Environmental issue
19. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Water cycle
Abiotic factor
Renewable resource
Industrial Revolution
20. Resources supplied by nature
Natural selection
Sustainability
Natural Resource
Precipitation
21. Mass destruction of most species
Precipitation
Agriculture
Major food nutrients
Mass extinctions
22. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Control Group
Scavenger
Data table
Population
23. The rate of which a plant grows at
Global warming
Parasite
Growth rate
Pollution
24. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Industrial Revolution
Green revolution
Dispersal
Species
25. Possible to use again
Habitat
Recyclable
Growth rate
Environmental issue
26. The amount of food production in a given area
Emigration
Independent variable
Yield
Biome
27. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Community
Condensation
Selective cutting
Habitat
28. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Environmental issue
Control Group
Precipitation
29. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Experimental error
Line graph
Biotic factor
Malnutrition
30. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Nitrogen fixation
Biodiversity
Pie graph
Prey
31. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Nonrenewable resource
Recyclable
Environmental Science
Developed countries
32. An organism that can make it's own food
Ecosystem
Producer
Estuary
Evaporation
33. The practice of reducing energy use
Ecological footprint
Grains
Producer
Energy conservation
34. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Predation
Omnivore
Cost benefit analysis
Greenhouse effect
35. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Greenhouse effect
Non-biodegradable
Parasitism
Evaporation
36. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Data table
Ecosystem
Producer
Energy conservation
37. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Fossil fuel
Data table
Tragedy of the commons
Supply and demand
38. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Biodegradable
Extinction
Habitat
39. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Pioneer species
Herbivore
Non-biodegradable
Global warming
40. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Dependent variable
Green revolution
Grains
Natural resource
41. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Biotic factor
Developing countries
Hunters and Gatherers
Dispersal
42. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
human error
Hunters and Gatherers
Pioneer species
Biodegradable
43. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Malnutrition
Dependent variable
Renewable resource
Greenhouse effect
44. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Competition
Control Group
Independent variable
45. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Evaporation
Biodiversity
Threatened species
Niche
46. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Predation
Renewable resource
Omnivore
Cost benefit analysis
47. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Carnivore
Nonrecyclable
Temperature
Climate
48. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Pollution
Consumer
Ecology
Estuary
49. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Mutualism
Pie graph
Cost benefit analysis
Environmental Science
50. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Supply and demand
Secondary succession
Natural Resource
Bar graph