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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The amount of food production in a given area
Predation
Yield
human error
Dependent variable
2. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
Primary succession
Carrying capacity
3. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Grains
Tragedy of the commons
Biodiversity
Risk assessment
4. Leaving a population
Emigration
Experimental error
Depleted
Primary succession
5. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Hunters and Gatherers
Biodegradable
Habitat
6. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Threatened species
Dispersal
Hunters and Gatherers
Grains
7. The effect of the IV
Agriculture Revolution
Natural Resource
Dependent variable
Biodiversity
8. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Food web
Natural selection
Competition
Poaching
9. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Energy conservation
Hunters and Gatherers
Consumer
Limiting factor
10. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Niche
Subsistence farmers
Global warming
Biome
11. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Renewable resources
Industrial Revolution
Food chain
Risk assessment
12. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Condensation
Temperature
Community
Natural Resource
13. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Niche
Predator
Scatter graph
Habitat
14. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Primary succession
Nonrecyclable
Pie graph
Grains
15. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Agriculture
Predator
Biodiversity
16. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Nitrogen fixation
Global warming
Predator
Abiotic factor
17. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Energy conservation
Biodegradable
Evaporation
18. All the members of one species in a particular area
Food chain
Geothermal energy
Population
Species
19. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Producer
Biodiversity
Mutualism
20. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Natural resource
Precipitation
Selective cutting
Decomposer
21. The practice of reducing energy use
Non-biodegradable
Biotic factor
Energy conservation
Poaching
22. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Herbivore
Pioneer species
Biome
Groundwater
23. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Species
Biodiversity
Worlds 5 Main Foods
24. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Food chain
Agriculture
Ecology
Groundwater
25. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Grains
Subsistence farmers
Condensation
Climate
26. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Subsistence farmers
Supply and demand
Yield
Sustainability
27. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Herbivore
Adaptations
Grains
Threatened species
28. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Natural Resource
Cost benefit analysis
Biodegradable
Climate
29. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Famine
human error
Data table
Condensation
30. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Column Graph
Green revolution
Natural Resource
Nonrenewable resource
31. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Ecosystem
Supply and demand
Agriculture
32. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Producer
Temperature
Famine
Cost benefit analysis
33. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Nonrenewable resource
Ecological footprint
Nonrenewable resource
Temperature
34. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Dependent variable
Cost benefit analysis
Precipitation
Limiting factor
35. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Keystone species
Symbiosis
Selective cutting
36. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Depleted
Developed countries
Natural resource
Evaporation
37. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Consumer
Adaptations
Food chain
Sustainability
38. All the different populations that live together in an area
Developing countries
Community
Ecology
Famine
39. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Producer
Symbiosis
Carnivore
40. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Biodiversity
Omnivore
Sustainability
41. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Data table
Nonrenewable resource
Pollution
Efficiency
42. Possible to use again
Primary succession
Experimental Groups
Recyclable
Environmental Science
43. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Ecosystem
Parasitism
Line graph
Natural Resource
44. The number of different species in an area
Recyclable
Industrial Revolution
Abiotic factor
Biodiversity
45. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Poaching
Precipitation
Groundwater
Greenhouse effect
46. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Primary succession
Data table
Parasite
Sustainability
47. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Malnutrition
Extinction
Renewable resource
48. Mass destruction of most species
Ecological footprint
Mass extinctions
Famine
Pie graph
49. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Greenhouse effect
Dependent variable
Column Graph
Succession
50. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Biotic factor
Developed countries
Species
Condensation