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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. 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
Host
Niche
Nonrecyclable
2. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Renewable resource
Famine
Dispersal
Precipitation
3. Resources supplied by nature
Growth rate
Diet
Risk assessment
Natural Resource
4. Something that breaks down into soil
Temperature
Ecology
Biodegradable
Extinction
5. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Selective cutting
Greenhouse effect
Food chain
Niche
6. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
Food web
Industrial Revolution
7. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Consumer
Independent variable
Renewable resource
Keystone species
8. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Famine
Decomposer
Nitrogen fixation
Environmental Science
9. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Green revolution
Hunters and Gatherers
Renewable resource
10. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Biome
Control Group
Mass extinctions
11. Organism that does the killing
Succession
Renewable resource
Predator
Agriculture Revolution
12. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Renewable resources
Control Group
Experimental Groups
Parasite
13. The number of different species in a given area
Abiotic factor
Biodegradable
Environmental issue
Biodiversity
14. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Condensation
Efficiency
Grains
Biodiversity
15. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Precipitation
Parasite
human error
16. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Competition
Biotic factor
Carnivore
Sustainability
17. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Environmental issue
Symbiosis
Endangered species
Adaptations
18. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Selective cutting
Nonrenewable resource
Green revolution
Independent variable
19. Flaw in design of procedure
Global warming
Limiting factor
Experimental error
Selective cutting
20. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nitrogen fixation
Niche
Renewable resources
21. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Prey
Temperature
Green revolution
22. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Precipitation
Adaptations
Nonrecyclable
Climate
23. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Biodegradable
Scavenger
Food chain
Cost benefit analysis
24. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Hunters and Gatherers
Mass extinctions
Renewable resource
25. A consumer that eats only animals
Dispersal
Climate
Abiotic factor
Carnivore
26. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Tragedy of the commons
Decomposer
Precipitation
27. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Green revolution
Decomposer
Abiotic factor
28. The effect of the IV
Herbivore
Independent variable
Cost benefit analysis
Dependent variable
29. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Pollution
Dependent variable
Nonrenewable resource
30. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Pollution
Biodiversity
Control Group
Keystone species
31. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Pie graph
Community
Natural selection
32. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Precipitation
Efficiency
Evaporation
Commensalism
33. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Column Graph
Poaching
Omnivore
Competition
34. The first species to populate the area
Symbiosis
Pioneer species
Bar graph
Parasitism
35. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Yield
Agriculture Revolution
Renewable resources
Line graph
36. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Efficiency
Natural selection
Pollution
Predation
37. The largest population that an area can support
Host
Dependent variable
Carrying capacity
Developed countries
38. All the members of one species in a particular area
Nonrenewable resource
Population
Adaptations
Carnivore
39. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Pollution
Hunters and Gatherers
Tragedy of the commons
40. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Yield
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Habitat
Evaporation
41. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Keystone species
Species
Bar graph
Food web
42. Heat from the Earth's interior
Geothermal energy
Competition
Natural resource
Environmental Science
43. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Nitrogen fixation
Ecological footprint
Keystone species
Hunters and Gatherers
44. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Agriculture
Biome
Biodiversity
45. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Green revolution
Population
Niche
Host
46. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Limiting factor
Threatened species
Parasite
Carnivore
47. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Risk assessment
Famine
Consumer
Niche
48. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Scatter graph
Population
Temperature
Omnivore
49. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Omnivore
Scatter graph
Abiotic factor
50. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Experimental Groups
Grains
Environmental issue