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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Fossil fuel
Consumer
Extinction
2. The effect of the IV
Decomposer
Greenhouse effect
Habitat
Dependent variable
3. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nonrenewable resource
Bar graph
Hunters and Gatherers
4. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Mass extinctions
Precipitation
Natural selection
Producer
5. Organism that is killed
Dependent variable
Experimental Groups
Prey
Biotic factor
6. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Nonrenewable resource
Species
Precipitation
Ecosystem
7. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Predator
Industrial Revolution
Predation
8. Possible to use again
Ecosystem
Natural Resource
Condensation
Recyclable
9. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Temperature
Precipitation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Habitat
10. The variable that you manipulate
Endangered species
Secondary succession
Keystone species
Independent variable
11. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Nonrenewable resource
Column Graph
Poaching
Limiting factor
12. Leaving a population
Diet
Emigration
Efficiency
Biodiversity
13. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodiversity
Yield
Line graph
Biodegradable
14. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Limiting factor
Famine
Condensation
Dispersal
15. The amount of food production in a given area
Nitrogen fixation
Extinction
Dispersal
Yield
16. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Fossil fuel
Succession
Developed countries
Climate
17. A living part of an organism's habitat
Diet
Parasitism
Biotic factor
Predator
18. All the different populations that live together in an area
Biotic factor
Community
Estuary
Evaporation
19. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Risk assessment
Emigration
Precipitation
20. A chart with bars
Geothermal energy
Pollution
Bar graph
Cost benefit analysis
21. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Tragedy of the commons
Cost benefit analysis
Diet
Risk assessment
22. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Evaporation
Global warming
Decomposer
Secondary succession
23. Flaw in design of procedure
Immigration
Ecosystem
Pioneer species
Experimental error
24. The largest population that an area can support
Keystone species
Carrying capacity
Groundwater
Fossil fuel
25. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Industrial Revolution
Ecosystem
Tragedy of the commons
Pioneer species
26. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Ecosystem
Cost benefit analysis
Geothermal energy
Groundwater
27. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Natural resource
Tragedy of the commons
Bar graph
Diet
28. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Ecosystem
Competition
Fossil fuel
Mass extinctions
29. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Non-biodegradable
Biome
Nonrenewable resource
Yield
30. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Precipitation
Herbivore
Column Graph
31. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Subsistence farmers
Line graph
Control Group
Agriculture
32. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Pioneer species
Parasite
Condensation
Producer
33. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Environmental Science
Natural selection
Renewable resource
34. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Independent variable
Nitrogen fixation
Evaporation
Mutualism
35. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Niche
Biodegradable
Predator
36. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Depleted
Keystone species
Control Group
Ecology
37. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Prey
Population
Temperature
38. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Biodegradable
Niche
Community
Grains
39. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Agriculture Revolution
Water cycle
Nitrogen fixation
40. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Natural Resource
Climate
Predator
Competition
41. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Recyclable
Immigration
Ecosystem
Ecological footprint
42. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Recyclable
Adaptations
Diet
Predation
43. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Species
Scavenger
Commensalism
44. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Efficiency
Carrying capacity
Parasitism
Dispersal
45. All the members of one species in a particular area
Nonrecyclable
Population
Biodegradable
Competition
46. Heat from the Earth's interior
Endangered species
Geothermal energy
Grains
Natural selection
47. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Renewable resources
Renewable resource
Secondary succession
Biotic factor
48. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Diet
Tragedy of the commons
Host
Developed countries
49. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Growth rate
Experimental Groups
Precipitation
Bar graph
50. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Bar graph
Predator
Primary succession
Non-biodegradable