SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Supply and demand
Symbiosis
Biodiversity
Agriculture Revolution
2. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Nonrecyclable
Risk assessment
Hunters and Gatherers
Non-biodegradable
3. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Tragedy of the commons
Biodegradable
Emigration
4. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Malnutrition
Supply and demand
Nonrenewable resource
Green revolution
5. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Evaporation
Secondary succession
Ecology
Food web
6. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Abiotic factor
Precipitation
Biome
Mutualism
7. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Predator
Carrying capacity
Tragedy of the commons
Scatter graph
8. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Commensalism
Recyclable
Natural resource
9. The rate of which a plant grows at
Biodiversity
Natural Resource
Growth rate
human error
10. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Mutualism
Precipitation
Malnutrition
Natural Resource
11. The variable that you manipulate
Herbivore
human error
Independent variable
Nonrenewable resource
12. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Sustainability
Natural Resource
Renewable resources
Competition
13. Flaw in design of procedure
Endangered species
Experimental error
Depleted
Dispersal
14. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Niche
Famine
Herbivore
Biotic factor
15. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Geothermal energy
Commensalism
Keystone species
Renewable resource
16. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Emigration
Predation
Dispersal
Scavenger
17. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Data table
Carrying capacity
Condensation
Fossil fuel
18. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Predation
Major food nutrients
Agriculture Revolution
Mass extinctions
19. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Scatter graph
Producer
Fossil fuel
Decomposer
20. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Water cycle
Energy conservation
Column Graph
21. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Data table
Efficiency
Competition
Ecology
22. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Secondary succession
Adaptations
Biodegradable
23. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Abiotic factor
Ecological footprint
Depleted
Agriculture Revolution
24. The practice of reducing energy use
Food chain
Energy conservation
Ecosystem
Geothermal energy
25. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Climate
Species
Water cycle
26. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Community
Risk assessment
Green revolution
Poaching
27. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Emigration
Pioneer species
Agriculture
28. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Decomposer
Ecology
Precipitation
29. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Decomposer
Mutualism
Control Group
Natural Resource
30. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Emigration
Carrying capacity
Predator
31. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Host
Scatter graph
Data table
Global warming
32. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Carrying capacity
Prey
Extinction
33. Moving into a population
Environmental Science
Immigration
Poaching
Worlds 5 Main Foods
34. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Dispersal
Adaptations
Environmental Science
Developed countries
35. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Poaching
Consumer
Competition
Ecological footprint
36. A living part of an organism's habitat
Non-biodegradable
Precipitation
Biotic factor
Threatened species
37. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Food chain
Herbivore
Pioneer species
Control Group
38. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Control Group
Nonrenewable resource
Decomposer
Habitat
39. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Producer
Limiting factor
Keystone species
Developed countries
40. The effect of the IV
Sustainability
Food web
Dependent variable
Pollution
41. A relationship in which both species benefit
Poaching
Mutualism
Subsistence farmers
Efficiency
42. The largest population that an area can support
Nonrecyclable
Carrying capacity
Malnutrition
Immigration
43. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Mass extinctions
Succession
Nonrenewable resource
Biodiversity
44. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Carrying capacity
Greenhouse effect
Experimental Groups
45. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Food web
Dependent variable
Tragedy of the commons
Industrial Revolution
46. A consumer that eats only animals
Renewable resource
Keystone species
Carnivore
Geothermal energy
47. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Greenhouse effect
Ecological footprint
Data table
48. The amount of food production in a given area
Agriculture
Independent variable
Renewable resources
Yield
49. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biodiversity
Secondary succession
Pioneer species
Biome
50. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Scavenger
Threatened species
Pie graph
Emigration