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DSST Environmental Science - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Process of measuring the chance that an environmental hazard will cause harm
exotic species
secondary succession
risk assessment
fire suppression
2. The practice of protecting the environment
mutualism
selective cutting
debt-for-nature swap
conservation
3. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
prescribed burns
carbon footprint
poaching
omnivore
4. Building up not out
A principal of smart growth
immigration
species
sustainable yield
5. Species that are carried to a new location by people
biggest danger posed by global warming to people living in coastal areas
sustainable yield
exotic species
infants
6. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
sustainable yield
prey
primary succession
carnivore
7. The process of cutting down all the trees in an area at once
warming temperatures
clear-cutting
niche
carnivore
8. Contamination of land - water - or air
fire suppression
deforestation
give an example of a social hazard that cannot be easily controlled
pollution
9. The form of transportation that uses the most energy per passenger mile
automobile
pathogen
environmental science
teratogens
10. Manage - protect and reintroduce threatened and endangered species
habitat
sustainable yield
threatened
Species Survival Plans (SSPs) goals
11. Plan to establish an 8000 kilometer long strip of land to rejoin fragments of tiger habitat
epidemiology
biome
wildlife corridor
debt-for-nature swap
12. One way zoos and aquariums help increase wildlife populations
captive breeding programs
immigration
vector
planting of new trees help reduce climate change by
13. Refers to an increase in Earth's average surface temperature
prescribed burns
global warming
teratogens
Scientists determine current climate conditions by
14. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow - and reproduce
habitat
Scientists determine current climate conditions by
carcinogens
emerging disease
15. Chemical hazard that was once found in paint - young children are frequently tested for this
lead
emerging disease
factors that cause different people to respond differently to environmental hazards
name examples of infrastructure
16. Global phenomenon that has caused some organisms to move toward the poles and to higher altitude
producer
habitat
name examples of infrastructure
warming temperatures
17. An organism that can make its own food
ecosystem diversity
poaching
producer
Scientists determine current climate conditions by
18. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
consumer
rural area
adaptation
food web
19. Viruses - bacteria and other organisms in the environment that harm human health
biological hazards
commensalism
how does sprawl increase carbon dioxide emissions
teratogens
20. A form of decision-making concerned with the allocation and conservation of natural resources
sustainable cities can
resource management
harvested sustainability is a renewable source IF
name examples of land cover
21. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
immigration
scavenger
captive breeding programs
fishery
22. A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
biological hazards
teratogens
immigration
commensalism
23. Habitat change and fragmentation
scavenger
renewable resource
endangered
biggest cause of biodiversity loss
24. A disease that has appeared in the human population for the first time or that has existed for a while but is increasing rapidly and spreading around the world
habitat destruction
species diversity
emerging disease
biotic factor
25. Organism that carries pathogens
epidemiology
overfishing
fire suppression
vector
26. Businesses are arranged in a long row along a roadway - with no main community
uncentered commercial strip development
population
factors that cause different people to respond differently to environmental hazards
habitat
27. Fires that are set by humans
prescribed fires
extinction
habitat
biotic factor
28. Amount of land each person uses
per capita land consumption
exotic species
decomposer
food chain
29. The amount of replacement is equal to the amount harvested
endangered
harvested sustainability is a renewable source IF
prescribed fires
Species Survival Plans (SSPs) goals
30. A living part of an organism's habitat
carbon footprint
resource
biotic factor
parasitism
31. Water vapor and carbon dioxide that trap heat near the earth
fishery
adaptation
greenhouse gases
secondary succession
32. By increasing the need for people to drive
predator
how does sprawl increase carbon dioxide emissions
global warming
overfishing
33. Increase the stability of an ecosystem
automobile
Earth's fresh water is used mostly for
high levels of biodiversity
renewable sources
34. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on the other organisms
ecosystem diversity
fire suppression
renewable sources
consumer
35. Any substance that poses a chemical hazard
the ocean's absorption of carbon dioxide ...
population
toxicant
competition
36. A region that has many different types of organism is described as having a high level of this
an action that can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions caused by driving
ecology
species diversity
genetic diversity
37. Resulted in suppression of all forest fires
38. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms still exist
harvested sustainability is a renewable source IF
secondary succession
extirpation
captive breeding programs
39. Using public transportation
conservation
nodules
an action that can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions caused by driving
decomposer
40. The mating of animals in zoos or wildlife preserves
economic value of forests
food chain
give an example of a social hazard that cannot be easily controlled
captive breeding
41. Chemicals that causes harm to embryos and fetuses
parasitism
teratogens
keystone species
species
42. Help improve the standard of living for residents
sustainable cities can
give an example of a social hazard that cannot be easily controlled
biomagnification
carrying capacity
43. Sikhote-Alin mountains and the Siberian tigers living there are separated from other mountains by this
carnivore
carbon footprint
renewable resource
habitat fragment
44. Rising sea level
resource
poaching
biggest danger posed by global warming to people living in coastal areas
herbivore
45. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
niche
species
vector
warming temperatures
46. An example of a method for managing whole ecosystems and habitats
mapping biodiversity hotspots
fishery
toxicant
endangered species
47. An area with a large population of valuable ocean organisms
adaptation
ecology
fishery
Species Survival Plans (SSPs) goals
48. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
endangered
symbiosis
clear-cutting
debt-for-nature swap
49. Deals with biological hazards
threatened
nonrenewable resource
epidemiology
food chain
50. The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resource
extirpation
greenhouse gases
economic value of forests
competition