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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anything that harms an organism
Malnutrition
Natural resource
Yield
Pollution
2. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Subsistence farmers
Supply and demand
Succession
Sustainability
3. A chart with bars
Industrial Revolution
Evaporation
Bar graph
Emigration
4. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Natural Resource
Independent variable
Natural selection
Hunters and Gatherers
5. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Predator
Species
Green revolution
Independent variable
6. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Malnutrition
Abiotic factor
Famine
Mutualism
7. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Biome
Symbiosis
Niche
Worlds 5 Main Foods
8. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Predator
Scatter graph
Temperature
Evaporation
9. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Herbivore
Habitat
Depleted
Nitrogen fixation
10. The number of different species in a given area
Experimental Groups
Biodiversity
Dispersal
Nitrogen fixation
11. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Natural resource
Geothermal energy
Efficiency
Agriculture
12. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Keystone species
Scavenger
Famine
Biodegradable
13. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Carrying capacity
Species
Developing countries
Limiting factor
14. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Control Group
Biodegradable
Producer
Condensation
15. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Dependent variable
Immigration
Sustainability
Biodiversity
16. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Food web
Carnivore
Famine
Species
17. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
Industrial Revolution
Endangered species
Community
Natural resource
18. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Mass extinctions
Global warming
Experimental Groups
19. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Dispersal
Bar graph
Groundwater
Habitat
20. Flaw in design of procedure
Depleted
Temperature
Experimental error
Omnivore
21. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Sustainability
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Parasitism
Pie graph
22. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Succession
Food chain
Scatter graph
Experimental Groups
23. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Prey
Omnivore
Population
Cost benefit analysis
24. Mistake in following procedure
Food chain
Yield
Niche
human error
25. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Threatened species
Biodiversity
Energy conservation
Depleted
26. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Natural Resource
Decomposer
Renewable resource
Estuary
27. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Fossil fuel
Food web
Temperature
Supply and demand
28. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Abiotic factor
Mutualism
Parasite
29. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Environmental Science
Fossil fuel
Climate
Dependent variable
30. A living part of an organism's habitat
Biotic factor
Prey
Data table
Renewable resource
31. The effect of the IV
Biodiversity
Growth rate
Dependent variable
Famine
32. The variable that you manipulate
Scavenger
Independent variable
Emigration
Subsistence farmers
33. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Primary succession
Malnutrition
Nonrenewable resource
Evaporation
34. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Emigration
Secondary succession
Environmental Science
Species
35. Something that breaks down into soil
Predator
Biodegradable
Herbivore
Abiotic factor
36. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Efficiency
Prey
Major food nutrients
Community
37. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Yield
Ecology
Pie graph
Species
38. The rate of which a plant grows at
Grains
Green revolution
Growth rate
Agriculture Revolution
39. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Succession
Parasitism
Dispersal
Water cycle
40. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Natural Resource
Experimental error
Pioneer species
Line graph
41. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Energy conservation
Green revolution
Cost benefit analysis
Keystone species
42. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Commensalism
Grains
Ecological footprint
Biome
43. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Experimental Groups
Biodiversity
Renewable resources
Precipitation
44. Heat from the Earth's interior
Geothermal energy
Ecosystem
Renewable resources
Dependent variable
45. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Herbivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Industrial Revolution
Natural Resource
46. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
Host
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Abiotic factor
47. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Parasitism
Global warming
Natural selection
Carrying capacity
48. The amount of food production in a given area
Bar graph
Yield
Agriculture
Control Group
49. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Developed countries
Precipitation
Keystone species
Control Group
50. Organism that is killed
Species
Niche
Prey
Emigration