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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Dispersal
Competition
Data table
Developed countries
2. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Biodiversity
Parasite
Primary succession
Biodiversity
3. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Precipitation
Developed countries
Nonrecyclable
Groundwater
4. Something that breaks down into soil
Nonrenewable resource
Biodegradable
Data table
Omnivore
5. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nonrecyclable
Carnivore
Nitrogen fixation
Dispersal
6. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Parasite
Industrial Revolution
Fossil fuel
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Precipitation
Mass extinctions
Pioneer species
8. A consumer that eats only animals
Limiting factor
Temperature
Carnivore
Nonrenewable resource
9. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Column Graph
Subsistence farmers
Threatened species
Natural selection
10. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Renewable resources
Precipitation
Experimental Groups
Agriculture Revolution
11. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Producer
Agriculture Revolution
Evaporation
12. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Data table
Pollution
Developed countries
Greenhouse effect
13. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Mutualism
Experimental error
Food web
14. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Ecosystem
Column Graph
Industrial Revolution
Famine
15. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Recyclable
human error
Habitat
Abiotic factor
16. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Limiting factor
Food web
Immigration
Niche
17. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Parasite
Natural Resource
Developed countries
Bar graph
18. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Niche
Food web
Biodegradable
Efficiency
19. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Diet
Yield
Food web
Control Group
20. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Yield
Energy conservation
Biodiversity
Biome
21. Anything that harms an organism
Ecosystem
Limiting factor
Keystone species
Pollution
22. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Precipitation
Ecology
Producer
Experimental Groups
23. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Ecological footprint
Groundwater
Green revolution
Diet
24. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Keystone species
Extinction
Community
Emigration
25. Heat from the Earth's interior
Greenhouse effect
Nonrecyclable
Geothermal energy
Adaptations
26. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Evaporation
Secondary succession
Estuary
Renewable resource
27. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Environmental Science
Agriculture
Risk assessment
Herbivore
28. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Line graph
Growth rate
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Ecosystem
29. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Depleted
Supply and demand
Experimental Groups
Herbivore
30. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
human error
Column Graph
Nonrenewable resource
Diet
31. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Grains
Agriculture Revolution
Condensation
Carnivore
32. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Pioneer species
Mass extinctions
Extinction
Subsistence farmers
33. Organism that is killed
Selective cutting
Line graph
Prey
Herbivore
34. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Niche
Diet
Natural resource
Symbiosis
35. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Line graph
Column Graph
Decomposer
Energy conservation
36. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Dependent variable
Habitat
Experimental error
Natural resource
37. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Experimental Groups
Independent variable
Major food nutrients
Estuary
38. Resources supplied by nature
Pie graph
Natural Resource
Prey
Control Group
39. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Nitrogen fixation
Environmental Science
Consumer
40. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Herbivore
Condensation
Parasite
Famine
41. 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
Community
Temperature
Biodiversity
42. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Succession
Ecosystem
Efficiency
43. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Renewable resources
Data table
Predation
Fossil fuel
44. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Competition
Threatened species
Major food nutrients
Parasitism
45. The practice of reducing energy use
Groundwater
human error
Energy conservation
Ecology
46. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Competition
Food chain
Limiting factor
Geothermal energy
47. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Population
Poaching
Green revolution
Experimental Groups
48. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Non-biodegradable
Tragedy of the commons
Malnutrition
49. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Natural Resource
Experimental Groups
Depleted
50. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Supply and demand
Threatened species
Scatter graph
Ecosystem