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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Developed countries
Scatter graph
Omnivore
Evaporation
2. The amount of food production in a given area
Species
Yield
human error
Producer
3. Moving into a population
Poaching
Host
Immigration
Yield
4. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Biodegradable
Biome
Poaching
Experimental Groups
5. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Subsistence farmers
Decomposer
Sustainability
Pollution
6. The variable that you manipulate
Nitrogen fixation
Natural selection
Food chain
Independent variable
7. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Cost benefit analysis
Temperature
Biodegradable
Commensalism
8. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Famine
Selective cutting
Water cycle
Biodegradable
9. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Host
Environmental issue
Hunters and Gatherers
Subsistence farmers
10. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Risk assessment
Energy conservation
Renewable resource
11. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Developed countries
Natural selection
Ecosystem
Succession
12. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Prey
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
Competition
13. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Omnivore
Selective cutting
Non-biodegradable
Biome
14. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Temperature
Predator
Greenhouse effect
Line graph
15. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Dispersal
Natural Resource
Biodegradable
16. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Herbivore
Pioneer species
Dispersal
Experimental Groups
17. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Major food nutrients
Species
Line graph
18. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Global warming
Estuary
Environmental Science
Host
19. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Ecological footprint
Evaporation
Carnivore
20. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Biodiversity
Ecology
Host
Predator
21. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Emigration
Succession
Dispersal
Agriculture
22. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Natural resource
Species
Niche
Mass extinctions
23. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Hunters and Gatherers
Experimental Groups
Population
Temperature
24. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Biotic factor
Parasitism
Pie graph
Symbiosis
25. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Subsistence farmers
Condensation
Biodegradable
Community
26. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Growth rate
Renewable resource
Green revolution
Natural resource
27. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Condensation
Producer
Primary succession
28. The practice of reducing energy use
Nonrenewable resource
Energy conservation
Adaptations
Parasitism
29. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Subsistence farmers
Decomposer
Ecological footprint
Host
30. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Nonrenewable resource
Natural Resource
Abiotic factor
Worlds 5 Main Foods
31. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Biodegradable
Industrial Revolution
Biodegradable
32. A consumer that eats only animals
Natural Resource
Supply and demand
Carnivore
Biome
33. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Population
Cost benefit analysis
Renewable resource
Primary succession
34. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Energy conservation
Food chain
Limiting factor
Grains
35. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Habitat
Growth rate
Greenhouse effect
Subsistence farmers
36. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Global warming
Sustainability
Succession
Habitat
37. The number of different species in an area
Sustainability
Biodiversity
Mutualism
Non-biodegradable
38. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Endangered species
Hunters and Gatherers
Sustainability
human error
39. A chart with bars
Estuary
Carrying capacity
Bar graph
Energy conservation
40. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Major food nutrients
Abiotic factor
Food chain
Energy conservation
41. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Carrying capacity
Competition
Global warming
Consumer
42. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Fossil fuel
Biodiversity
Nitrogen fixation
Tragedy of the commons
43. A relationship in which both species benefit
Greenhouse effect
Host
Mutualism
Risk assessment
44. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Immigration
Water cycle
Experimental error
Scatter graph
45. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Primary succession
Parasitism
Supply and demand
Immigration
46. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Control Group
Industrial Revolution
Consumer
Poaching
47. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Grains
Parasitism
Line graph
Column Graph
48. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Environmental issue
Producer
Secondary succession
Population
49. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Ecological footprint
Bar graph
Groundwater
Nitrogen fixation
50. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Extinction
Dependent variable
Supply and demand
Adaptations