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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Adaptations
Hunters and Gatherers
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Nonrenewable resource
2. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Dispersal
Abiotic factor
Diet
Threatened species
3. The practice of reducing energy use
Energy conservation
Endangered species
Precipitation
Efficiency
4. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Primary succession
Condensation
Nitrogen fixation
5. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Environmental Science
Habitat
Endangered species
Biodegradable
6. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Parasite
Environmental Science
Nonrecyclable
Dispersal
7. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Renewable resource
Recyclable
Risk assessment
Community
8. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Groundwater
Dispersal
Column Graph
Control Group
9. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Condensation
Population
Immigration
Scavenger
10. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Climate
Geothermal energy
Decomposer
Non-biodegradable
11. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Scavenger
Limiting factor
Nitrogen fixation
Major food nutrients
12. Leaving a population
Malnutrition
Global warming
Precipitation
Emigration
13. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Developed countries
Limiting factor
Food chain
14. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Natural Resource
Fossil fuel
Column Graph
Nitrogen fixation
15. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Condensation
Parasite
Keystone species
Natural Resource
16. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Sustainability
Species
Natural resource
Mutualism
17. The rate of which a plant grows at
Growth rate
Yield
Poaching
Tragedy of the commons
18. Anything that harms an organism
Dependent variable
Community
Pollution
Abiotic factor
19. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Primary succession
Condensation
Agriculture Revolution
Adaptations
20. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Succession
Line graph
Endangered species
21. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Population
Condensation
Estuary
22. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Population
Estuary
Malnutrition
23. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Pollution
Natural Resource
Evaporation
Scatter graph
24. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Parasitism
Keystone species
Symbiosis
Yield
25. All the different populations that live together in an area
Major food nutrients
Precipitation
Community
Population
26. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Symbiosis
Biodegradable
Secondary succession
Industrial Revolution
27. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Experimental error
Ecology
Global warming
Biodegradable
28. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Endangered species
Scavenger
Renewable resource
Environmental issue
29. All the members of one species in a particular area
Population
Risk assessment
Evaporation
Control Group
30. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Risk assessment
Greenhouse effect
Experimental Groups
Selective cutting
31. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Predation
Parasite
Climate
Famine
32. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Mutualism
Fossil fuel
Community
Major food nutrients
33. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Parasite
Independent variable
Renewable resource
Poaching
34. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Experimental Groups
Agriculture Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Depleted
35. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Limiting factor
Habitat
Nonrecyclable
Immigration
36. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Climate
Commensalism
Immigration
Parasitism
37. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Scatter graph
Environmental Science
Grains
Immigration
38. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Immigration
Pioneer species
Energy conservation
39. Organism that does the killing
Major food nutrients
Renewable resources
Data table
Predator
40. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Food web
Ecological footprint
Yield
Evaporation
41. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Data table
Malnutrition
Emigration
Supply and demand
42. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Yield
Threatened species
Primary succession
Experimental error
43. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Food chain
Dispersal
Temperature
Species
44. Mistake in following procedure
Subsistence farmers
Sustainability
Niche
human error
45. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Pioneer species
Precipitation
Groundwater
Nonrenewable resource
46. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Nonrenewable resource
Pie graph
Natural selection
Emigration
47. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Climate
Temperature
Developed countries
Nitrogen fixation
48. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Mutualism
Environmental Science
Nonrenewable resource
Decomposer
49. An organism that can make it's own food
Climate
Subsistence farmers
Growth rate
Producer
50. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Nitrogen fixation
Ecological footprint
Commensalism
Dependent variable