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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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1. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Precipitation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodegradable
Food chain
2. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Host
Yield
Ecology
3. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Dependent variable
Estuary
Niche
Abiotic factor
4. Moving into a population
Dispersal
Immigration
Sustainability
Poaching
5. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Pollution
Renewable resources
Depleted
Natural resource
6. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Habitat
Bar graph
Producer
7. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Natural resource
Famine
Omnivore
8. Heat from the Earth's interior
Natural selection
Yield
Geothermal energy
Efficiency
9. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Adaptations
Biodiversity
Green revolution
10. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Supply and demand
Commensalism
Malnutrition
Parasitism
11. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Food chain
Cost benefit analysis
Industrial Revolution
Evaporation
12. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Nonrecyclable
Agriculture
Food chain
Prey
13. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Parasite
Secondary succession
Poaching
Groundwater
14. The largest population that an area can support
Habitat
Threatened species
Growth rate
Carrying capacity
15. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Sustainability
Abiotic factor
Industrial Revolution
16. Something that breaks down into soil
Water cycle
Cost benefit analysis
Consumer
Biodegradable
17. Anything that harms an organism
Commensalism
Omnivore
Nitrogen fixation
Pollution
18. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Carnivore
Developing countries
Control Group
Ecological footprint
19. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Sustainability
Biotic factor
Threatened species
Herbivore
20. All the different populations that live together in an area
Biodiversity
Commensalism
Community
Immigration
21. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Renewable resources
Subsistence farmers
Predation
Dependent variable
22. Resources supplied by nature
Green revolution
Natural Resource
Control Group
Immigration
23. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Data table
Biodiversity
Predation
Precipitation
24. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
human error
Cost benefit analysis
Estuary
Scatter graph
25. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Symbiosis
Competition
Commensalism
26. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Pollution
Depleted
Consumer
Growth rate
27. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Predation
Secondary succession
Fossil fuel
Parasite
28. Organism that does the killing
Community
Environmental issue
Symbiosis
Predator
29. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Herbivore
Succession
Commensalism
Endangered species
30. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Natural selection
Niche
Primary succession
Limiting factor
31. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Nonrecyclable
Major food nutrients
Natural selection
32. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Mutualism
Line graph
Natural selection
Nonrenewable resource
33. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Groundwater
Immigration
Food chain
Scavenger
34. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nitrogen fixation
Nonrecyclable
human error
Agriculture Revolution
35. Organism that is killed
Nitrogen fixation
Nonrecyclable
Biodegradable
Prey
36. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Parasitism
Diet
Global warming
Decomposer
37. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Energy conservation
Supply and demand
Pie graph
Sustainability
38. A chart with bars
Symbiosis
Bar graph
Emigration
Renewable resource
39. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Non-biodegradable
Ecology
Limiting factor
Sustainability
40. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Scatter graph
Host
Dispersal
Poaching
41. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Bar graph
Line graph
Competition
Temperature
42. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Species
Diet
Mass extinctions
Decomposer
43. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Independent variable
Limiting factor
Growth rate
44. The variable that you manipulate
Secondary succession
Growth rate
Independent variable
Pollution
45. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Non-biodegradable
Green revolution
Food web
Biome
46. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Decomposer
Developing countries
Omnivore
Efficiency
47. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Renewable resource
Biodiversity
Mass extinctions
Green revolution
48. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Water cycle
Nonrenewable resource
Natural selection
Growth rate
49. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Supply and demand
Greenhouse effect
Column Graph
Herbivore
50. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Column Graph
Water cycle
Parasite
Independent variable