SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Climate
Green revolution
Food web
Grains
2. Moving into a population
Subsistence farmers
Immigration
Extinction
Non-biodegradable
3. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Succession
Green revolution
Supply and demand
4. A chart with bars
Recyclable
Experimental Groups
Bar graph
Supply and demand
5. Something that breaks down into soil
Biodegradable
Parasite
Geothermal energy
Industrial Revolution
6. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Estuary
Threatened species
Climate
Ecology
7. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Extinction
Diet
Condensation
Consumer
8. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Column Graph
Carnivore
Worlds 5 Main Foods
9. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Mutualism
Condensation
Efficiency
Succession
10. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Sustainability
Control Group
Population
Natural resource
11. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Natural resource
Parasitism
Famine
Ecological footprint
12. The variable that you manipulate
Emigration
Pioneer species
Independent variable
Mutualism
13. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Independent variable
Scatter graph
Renewable resources
Non-biodegradable
14. A consumer that eats only plants
Ecology
Herbivore
Threatened species
Growth rate
15. Leaving a population
Emigration
Community
Primary succession
Supply and demand
16. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Host
Decomposer
Ecology
Species
17. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Line graph
Experimental error
Grains
Groundwater
18. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Estuary
Malnutrition
Global warming
Non-biodegradable
19. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Producer
Succession
Ecology
20. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Biodiversity
Omnivore
Evaporation
Environmental issue
21. A consumer that eats only animals
Condensation
Scavenger
Community
Carnivore
22. An organism that can make it's own food
Supply and demand
Adaptations
Producer
Nitrogen fixation
23. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Developing countries
Nonrenewable resource
Condensation
24. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Independent variable
Evaporation
Natural selection
Control Group
25. Organism that is killed
Precipitation
Groundwater
Prey
human error
26. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Decomposer
Extinction
Green revolution
Line graph
27. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Biotic factor
Environmental Science
Commensalism
28. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pie graph
Natural resource
Water cycle
Decomposer
29. The number of different species in an area
Poaching
Biodiversity
Food web
Producer
30. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Adaptations
Tragedy of the commons
Supply and demand
Poaching
31. A relationship in which both species benefit
Mutualism
Data table
Diet
Secondary succession
32. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Control Group
Non-biodegradable
Experimental error
Risk assessment
33. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Line graph
Mutualism
Renewable resources
Secondary succession
34. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Immigration
Estuary
Symbiosis
Experimental Groups
35. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Cost benefit analysis
Hunters and Gatherers
Famine
Succession
36. A living part of an organism's habitat
Energy conservation
Prey
Biotic factor
Agriculture Revolution
37. The amount of food production in a given area
Yield
Recyclable
Predation
Renewable resource
38. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Developed countries
Estuary
Niche
Predator
39. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Pie graph
Agriculture Revolution
Line graph
Subsistence farmers
40. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Adaptations
Community
Sustainability
41. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Dispersal
Adaptations
Nonrecyclable
Dependent variable
42. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Experimental Groups
Scatter graph
Environmental Science
Major food nutrients
43. The continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
Water cycle
Temperature
Renewable resource
Symbiosis
44. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Natural resource
Community
Data table
Keystone species
45. Anything that harms an organism
Abiotic factor
Nonrenewable resource
Pollution
Emigration
46. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Tragedy of the commons
Developing countries
Carnivore
Scatter graph
47. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Endangered species
Developed countries
Fossil fuel
Selective cutting
48. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Biodegradable
Energy conservation
Industrial Revolution
Yield
49. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Agriculture
Succession
Diet
Renewable resources
50. Heat from the Earth's interior
Green revolution
Host
Geothermal energy
Nonrenewable resource