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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Community
Habitat
Decomposer
Pie graph
2. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Mass extinctions
Habitat
Agriculture
Green revolution
3. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Biodiversity
Secondary succession
Environmental Science
Ecosystem
4. The practice of reducing energy use
Major food nutrients
Energy conservation
Mutualism
Data table
5. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Scatter graph
Column Graph
Geothermal energy
Data table
6. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Adaptations
Sustainability
Prey
Dependent variable
7. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Scatter graph
Recyclable
Nonrecyclable
Selective cutting
8. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Recyclable
Mutualism
Consumer
Agriculture
9. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Evaporation
Threatened species
Supply and demand
Subsistence farmers
10. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Niche
Hunters and Gatherers
Biodegradable
Biome
11. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Ecology
Adaptations
Major food nutrients
12. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Experimental error
Limiting factor
Niche
Biodiversity
13. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Efficiency
Experimental Groups
Experimental error
Environmental Science
14. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Developed countries
Yield
Green revolution
15. A consumer that eats only plants
Immigration
Herbivore
Famine
Predator
16. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Dependent variable
Prey
Sustainability
Pollution
17. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Bar graph
Secondary succession
Grains
Predation
18. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Global warming
Diet
Omnivore
Malnutrition
19. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Famine
Scatter graph
Immigration
Diet
20. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Succession
Natural Resource
Prey
Industrial Revolution
21. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Industrial Revolution
Malnutrition
Developing countries
Host
22. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Recyclable
Food web
Parasitism
Nonrenewable resource
23. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Subsistence farmers
Estuary
Geothermal energy
Fossil fuel
24. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Column Graph
Ecology
Endangered species
25. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Abiotic factor
Estuary
Food web
Natural resource
26. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Commensalism
Immigration
Carnivore
27. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Food chain
Species
Environmental Science
Experimental Groups
28. The variable that you manipulate
Tragedy of the commons
Independent variable
Extinction
Pioneer species
29. Moving into a population
Industrial Revolution
Mass extinctions
Immigration
Column Graph
30. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Environmental issue
Groundwater
Keystone species
Ecosystem
31. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Emigration
Geothermal energy
Pie graph
32. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Sustainability
Symbiosis
Scavenger
33. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Selective cutting
Biodegradable
Keystone species
Immigration
34. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Precipitation
Parasite
Experimental Groups
Supply and demand
35. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Niche
Species
Ecology
Water cycle
36. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Biodegradable
Succession
Symbiosis
Renewable resource
37. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Niche
Bar graph
Secondary succession
Selective cutting
38. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Control Group
Parasite
Risk assessment
Poaching
39. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Supply and demand
Condensation
Natural selection
Malnutrition
40. The amount of food production in a given area
Grains
human error
Yield
Decomposer
41. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural resource
Famine
Green revolution
Natural selection
42. Flaw in design of procedure
Poaching
Experimental error
Pie graph
Hunters and Gatherers
43. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Succession
Developing countries
Nonrenewable resource
Threatened species
44. Resources supplied by nature
Biodiversity
Malnutrition
Natural Resource
Carrying capacity
45. A living part of an organism's habitat
Depleted
Biotic factor
Extinction
Host
46. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Developed countries
Community
Nonrenewable resource
Cost benefit analysis
47. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Column Graph
Biodegradable
Nitrogen fixation
Carnivore
48. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Renewable resource
Malnutrition
Precipitation
Recyclable
49. Organism that does the killing
Famine
Keystone species
Predation
Predator
50. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Pollution
Niche
Greenhouse effect
Producer