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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Predator
Mass extinctions
Malnutrition
Environmental Science
2. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Non-biodegradable
Climate
Ecology
Secondary succession
3. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Mass extinctions
Predator
Line graph
4. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Estuary
Biodiversity
Nitrogen fixation
Dispersal
5. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Host
Condensation
Environmental issue
Nonrecyclable
6. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Decomposer
Poaching
Species
Predator
7. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Dispersal
Industrial Revolution
Dependent variable
Efficiency
8. The variable that you manipulate
Pie graph
Pollution
Independent variable
Consumer
9. A consumer that eats only plants
Extinction
Herbivore
Agriculture
Diet
10. Something that breaks down into soil
Pioneer species
Environmental Science
Biodegradable
Natural resource
11. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Pie graph
Scavenger
Secondary succession
Parasite
12. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Groundwater
Biotic factor
Developed countries
Pioneer species
13. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Climate
Commensalism
Agriculture
Nonrenewable resource
14. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Experimental Groups
Pie graph
Nonrenewable resource
Developing countries
15. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Herbivore
Dispersal
Column Graph
Recyclable
16. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Parasitism
Limiting factor
Nitrogen fixation
Carrying capacity
17. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Sustainability
Temperature
Community
Groundwater
18. Anything that harms an organism
Carrying capacity
Developed countries
Symbiosis
Pollution
19. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Climate
Depleted
Bar graph
Fossil fuel
20. A consumer that eats only animals
Endangered species
Carnivore
Groundwater
Famine
21. The largest population that an area can support
Famine
Emigration
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Carrying capacity
22. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Non-biodegradable
Geothermal energy
Depleted
Developed countries
23. Mistake in following procedure
Parasitism
Consumer
human error
Bar graph
24. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Non-biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
Primary succession
Decomposer
25. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Commensalism
Line graph
Primary succession
Adaptations
26. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Famine
Biodiversity
Line graph
27. The number of different species in a given area
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Biodiversity
Recyclable
Temperature
28. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Tragedy of the commons
Decomposer
Abiotic factor
Renewable resources
29. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Geothermal energy
Water cycle
Risk assessment
Condensation
30. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Carrying capacity
Non-biodegradable
Famine
Decomposer
31. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Climate
Dispersal
Niche
Biodiversity
32. A living part of an organism's habitat
Cost benefit analysis
Habitat
Experimental Groups
Biotic factor
33. The amount of food production in a given area
Biome
Major food nutrients
Niche
Yield
34. Organism that does the killing
Experimental error
Predator
Greenhouse effect
Major food nutrients
35. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Supply and demand
Nonrenewable resource
Global warming
Efficiency
36. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Renewable resources
Biotic factor
Threatened species
Biome
37. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Commensalism
Nonrecyclable
Condensation
Agriculture Revolution
38. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Poaching
Threatened species
Major food nutrients
39. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Tragedy of the commons
Endangered species
Biodiversity
Limiting factor
40. Heat from the Earth's interior
Host
Niche
Geothermal energy
Limiting factor
41. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Column Graph
Natural selection
Nonrenewable resource
Ecological footprint
42. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Biodegradable
Dispersal
Pollution
Tragedy of the commons
43. All the different populations that live together in an area
Geothermal energy
Food web
Yield
Community
44. The effect of the IV
Precipitation
Industrial Revolution
Environmental Science
Dependent variable
45. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Selective cutting
Condensation
Malnutrition
46. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Population
Green revolution
Estuary
Hunters and Gatherers
47. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Global warming
Temperature
Habitat
Environmental issue
48. A relationship in which both species benefit
Line graph
Niche
Parasite
Mutualism
49. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Natural resource
Renewable resources
Line graph
Primary succession
50. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Poaching
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Predation
Ecological footprint