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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Bar graph
Developed countries
Groundwater
Column Graph
2. A consumer that eats only animals
Keystone species
Carnivore
Nonrenewable resource
Fossil fuel
3. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Groundwater
Host
human error
Commensalism
4. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Biodiversity
Supply and demand
Consumer
Selective cutting
5. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Sustainability
Decomposer
Nonrecyclable
Global warming
6. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Experimental error
Subsistence farmers
Hunters and Gatherers
Niche
7. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Grains
Energy conservation
Estuary
Secondary succession
8. A relationship in which both species benefit
Food chain
Selective cutting
Abiotic factor
Mutualism
9. An organism that can make it's own food
Scavenger
Endangered species
Evaporation
Producer
10. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Global warming
Threatened species
Yield
Line graph
11. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Climate
Agriculture Revolution
Abiotic factor
Efficiency
12. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Predation
Selective cutting
Poaching
Scavenger
13. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Dependent variable
Greenhouse effect
Commensalism
Efficiency
14. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Environmental Science
Niche
Sustainability
Agriculture Revolution
15. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Natural Resource
Species
Ecological footprint
16. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Supply and demand
Biodegradable
Non-biodegradable
Symbiosis
17. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Green revolution
Temperature
Major food nutrients
18. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Famine
Experimental Groups
Energy conservation
Adaptations
19. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Biodegradable
Immigration
Yield
20. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Precipitation
Extinction
Threatened species
Diet
21. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Natural selection
Herbivore
Hunters and Gatherers
Groundwater
22. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Community
Tragedy of the commons
Climate
Ecological footprint
23. The effect of the IV
Pie graph
Ecosystem
Dependent variable
Poaching
24. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Commensalism
Pollution
Climate
Omnivore
25. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Famine
Natural selection
Risk assessment
26. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Developing countries
Ecology
Agriculture Revolution
Water cycle
27. Resources supplied by nature
Extinction
Natural Resource
Non-biodegradable
Food web
28. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Pollution
Developing countries
Natural selection
Commensalism
29. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
Renewable resources
Food chain
Global warming
30. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Malnutrition
Niche
Ecology
31. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Host
Control Group
Tragedy of the commons
Pie graph
32. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Data table
Nonrenewable resource
Scavenger
Line graph
33. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Nitrogen fixation
Decomposer
Renewable resource
Column Graph
34. Possible to use again
Abiotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
Recyclable
Scatter graph
35. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Developing countries
Renewable resources
Diet
Niche
36. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Growth rate
Famine
Ecology
Nonrenewable resource
37. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Estuary
Limiting factor
Emigration
Carnivore
38. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Independent variable
Nonrecyclable
Nonrenewable resource
Predation
39. Anything that harms an organism
Limiting factor
Energy conservation
Pollution
Extinction
40. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Herbivore
Endangered species
Estuary
Mutualism
41. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Ecosystem
Biotic factor
Commensalism
Developing countries
42. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Condensation
Nitrogen fixation
Poaching
Yield
43. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Greenhouse effect
Endangered species
Supply and demand
Non-biodegradable
44. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Independent variable
Control Group
Herbivore
Abiotic factor
45. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Host
Ecosystem
Parasitism
Risk assessment
46. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Recyclable
Environmental issue
Omnivore
Column Graph
47. Flaw in design of procedure
Developed countries
Host
Ecosystem
Experimental error
48. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Omnivore
Symbiosis
Niche
Limiting factor
49. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Greenhouse effect
Natural resource
Grains
50. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Limiting factor
Mass extinctions
Species