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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Moving into a population
Immigration
Tragedy of the commons
Efficiency
Endangered species
2. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Diet
Natural Resource
Carnivore
Water cycle
3. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Non-biodegradable
Control Group
Biodiversity
Dispersal
4. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Extinction
Competition
Agriculture Revolution
Predator
5. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Tragedy of the commons
Host
Competition
Industrial Revolution
6. The rate of which a plant grows at
Secondary succession
Symbiosis
Greenhouse effect
Growth rate
7. Possible to use again
Biodiversity
Recyclable
Mutualism
Sustainability
8. Heat from the Earth's interior
Groundwater
Geothermal energy
Parasite
Decomposer
9. The number of different species in an area
Precipitation
Biodiversity
Dependent variable
Biome
10. All the members of one species in a particular area
Herbivore
Abiotic factor
Ecosystem
Population
11. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Species
Biodegradable
Cost benefit analysis
Scatter graph
12. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Nonrenewable resource
Subsistence farmers
Temperature
Host
13. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Greenhouse effect
Water cycle
Control Group
Host
14. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Parasite
Developing countries
Risk assessment
Dispersal
15. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Predation
Supply and demand
Community
Agriculture
16. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Omnivore
Biome
Ecosystem
Food web
17. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Food chain
Agriculture Revolution
Environmental Science
Nonrecyclable
18. A consumer that eats only plants
Omnivore
Herbivore
Water cycle
Condensation
19. A living part of an organism's habitat
Emigration
Biotic factor
Nitrogen fixation
Climate
20. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Commensalism
Adaptations
Tragedy of the commons
Nonrenewable resource
21. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Evaporation
Tragedy of the commons
Keystone species
22. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Experimental error
Biotic factor
Famine
Biodegradable
23. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Extinction
Dependent variable
Green revolution
Hunters and Gatherers
24. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Pollution
Secondary succession
Symbiosis
25. A relationship in which both species benefit
Food web
Dispersal
Mutualism
Threatened species
26. The variable that you manipulate
Developed countries
Consumer
Natural selection
Independent variable
27. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Food web
Experimental Groups
Ecological footprint
Agriculture
28. A chart with bars
Niche
Keystone species
Bar graph
Green revolution
29. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Biodegradable
Recyclable
Food chain
30. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Nonrenewable resource
Subsistence farmers
Secondary succession
Biodegradable
31. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Mass extinctions
Poaching
Natural selection
Scatter graph
32. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Sustainability
Adaptations
Species
Niche
33. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Environmental issue
Keystone species
Climate
Grains
34. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Precipitation
Agriculture Revolution
Immigration
Green revolution
35. Mass destruction of most species
Malnutrition
Hunters and Gatherers
Condensation
Mass extinctions
36. The amount of food production in a given area
Natural selection
Yield
Predator
Adaptations
37. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Biodiversity
Tragedy of the commons
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Risk assessment
38. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Risk assessment
Carrying capacity
Ecology
Species
39. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Natural resource
Omnivore
Recyclable
Malnutrition
40. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Pollution
Natural resource
Producer
41. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Supply and demand
Decomposer
Scavenger
Scatter graph
42. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Nitrogen fixation
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Diet
Renewable resource
43. The largest population that an area can support
Greenhouse effect
Carrying capacity
Niche
Famine
44. The number of different species in a given area
Developing countries
Keystone species
Succession
Biodiversity
45. All the different populations that live together in an area
Ecosystem
Community
Subsistence farmers
Natural Resource
46. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Green revolution
Species
Carrying capacity
47. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Yield
Predation
Developing countries
Dispersal
48. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Temperature
Developing countries
Abiotic factor
Endangered species
49. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Scavenger
Biodiversity
Line graph
Energy conservation
50. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Biotic factor
Primary succession
Parasitism
Worlds 5 Main Foods