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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Pollution
Risk assessment
Selective cutting
Pioneer species
2. A living part of an organism's habitat
Risk assessment
Community
Control Group
Biotic factor
3. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Greenhouse effect
Green revolution
Ecology
Keystone species
4. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Limiting factor
Food web
Competition
Depleted
5. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Nonrenewable resource
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Omnivore
Succession
6. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Food web
Grains
Mass extinctions
Poaching
7. The practice of reducing energy use
Growth rate
Green revolution
Population
Energy conservation
8. The largest population that an area can support
Threatened species
Evaporation
Primary succession
Carrying capacity
9. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Depleted
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Commensalism
Agriculture Revolution
10. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Biodiversity
Habitat
Precipitation
11. Organism that is killed
Ecological footprint
Biodegradable
Prey
Independent variable
12. Possible to use again
Recyclable
Water cycle
Column Graph
Species
13. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Prey
Population
Environmental issue
Tragedy of the commons
14. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Line graph
Agriculture Revolution
Food chain
15. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Symbiosis
Food chain
Primary succession
Ecological footprint
16. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Sustainability
Secondary succession
Selective cutting
Subsistence farmers
17. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Grains
Community
Mass extinctions
Column Graph
18. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Emigration
Herbivore
Renewable resource
Subsistence farmers
19. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Evaporation
Groundwater
Parasite
20. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Control Group
Line graph
Renewable resources
21. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Extinction
Succession
Efficiency
Evaporation
22. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Condensation
Groundwater
Host
23. The rate of which a plant grows at
Secondary succession
Growth rate
Community
Line graph
24. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Ecology
Commensalism
Water cycle
Environmental Science
25. Leaving a population
Cost benefit analysis
Emigration
Dependent variable
Evaporation
26. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Carrying capacity
Diet
Mutualism
Geothermal energy
27. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Renewable resource
Growth rate
Scatter graph
Selective cutting
28. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Recyclable
Predator
Abiotic factor
Nitrogen fixation
29. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Grains
Consumer
Selective cutting
Fossil fuel
30. All the different populations that live together in an area
Community
Natural Resource
Developing countries
human error
31. Resources supplied by nature
Endangered species
Growth rate
Carnivore
Natural Resource
32. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Scavenger
Yield
Abiotic factor
Community
33. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Limiting factor
Fossil fuel
Biome
Estuary
34. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Keystone species
Estuary
Producer
35. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Abiotic factor
Biome
Ecosystem
Bar graph
36. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Greenhouse effect
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
Endangered species
37. A relationship in which both species benefit
Primary succession
Dispersal
Mutualism
Endangered species
38. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
Estuary
Experimental error
Abiotic factor
39. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Mutualism
Malnutrition
Nonrecyclable
Evaporation
40. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Evaporation
Limiting factor
Omnivore
Bar graph
41. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Evaporation
Mass extinctions
Endangered species
Hunters and Gatherers
42. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Dispersal
Line graph
Non-biodegradable
43. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
Ecological footprint
Fossil fuel
44. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Biodegradable
Endangered species
Environmental issue
Supply and demand
45. The first species to populate the area
Climate
Renewable resources
Herbivore
Pioneer species
46. Mistake in following procedure
Species
Experimental Groups
human error
Biotic factor
47. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Depleted
Scatter graph
Dispersal
Ecological footprint
48. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Ecosystem
Population
Decomposer
Community
49. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Green revolution
Yield
Nonrenewable resource
50. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Pie graph
Commensalism
Limiting factor
Pioneer species