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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Tragedy of the commons
Primary succession
Risk assessment
human error
2. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Dispersal
Agriculture Revolution
Consumer
Depleted
3. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Immigration
Symbiosis
Nonrenewable resource
Green revolution
4. 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
Tragedy of the commons
Mutualism
Agriculture Revolution
5. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Natural resource
Environmental Science
Adaptations
Producer
6. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Decomposer
Niche
Carnivore
Ecology
7. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Nonrenewable resource
Food web
Threatened species
Community
8. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Secondary succession
Natural Resource
Abiotic factor
Evaporation
9. Resources supplied by nature
Ecology
Natural Resource
Parasite
Secondary succession
10. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Growth rate
Prey
Nonrenewable resource
Climate
11. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Growth rate
Parasite
Pie graph
Pioneer species
12. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Column Graph
Competition
Pollution
13. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Evaporation
Climate
Water cycle
Geothermal energy
14. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Keystone species
Estuary
Industrial Revolution
Nonrenewable resource
15. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Cost benefit analysis
Evaporation
Symbiosis
Data table
16. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Biodiversity
Experimental Groups
Hunters and Gatherers
Selective cutting
17. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Species
Carnivore
Renewable resources
Experimental error
18. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Diet
Biome
Nonrenewable resource
Consumer
19. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Temperature
Habitat
Control Group
Selective cutting
20. Organism that does the killing
Predator
Host
Nonrecyclable
Natural Resource
21. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Limiting factor
Renewable resources
Prey
Nonrenewable resource
22. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Threatened species
Population
Omnivore
Parasitism
23. A chart with bars
Succession
Bar graph
Sustainability
Nonrenewable resource
24. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Mutualism
Nonrecyclable
Greenhouse effect
Green revolution
25. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Poaching
Natural selection
Groundwater
Geothermal energy
26. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Efficiency
Niche
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Climate
27. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Agriculture Revolution
Developed countries
Biodiversity
Environmental issue
28. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Environmental Science
Food chain
Mass extinctions
Agriculture Revolution
29. The effect of the IV
Pioneer species
Pie graph
Dependent variable
Famine
30. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Estuary
Condensation
Population
31. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Energy conservation
Biodegradable
Nonrenewable resource
Column Graph
32. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Growth rate
Species
Data table
Omnivore
33. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural selection
Industrial Revolution
Commensalism
34. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Diet
Poaching
Agriculture Revolution
Developed countries
35. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Selective cutting
Competition
Yield
Abiotic factor
36. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Control Group
Food web
Non-biodegradable
Consumer
37. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Producer
Estuary
Scatter graph
Line graph
38. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Natural Resource
Succession
Temperature
Selective cutting
39. The variable that you manipulate
Famine
Carrying capacity
Secondary succession
Independent variable
40. The number of different species in an area
Biodiversity
Water cycle
Habitat
Natural resource
41. All the different populations that live together in an area
Famine
Ecology
Non-biodegradable
Community
42. All the members of one species in a particular area
Agriculture
Experimental Groups
Population
Succession
43. Mistake in following procedure
Decomposer
Prey
human error
Control Group
44. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Industrial Revolution
Predator
Biodegradable
Malnutrition
45. Moving into a population
Bar graph
Immigration
Limiting factor
Depleted
46. A relationship in which both species benefit
Agriculture
Carrying capacity
Global warming
Mutualism
47. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Ecosystem
Line graph
Column Graph
Experimental error
48. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Parasitism
Data table
Line graph
Pioneer species
49. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Cost benefit analysis
Poaching
Fossil fuel
Scatter graph
50. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Extinction
Omnivore
Greenhouse effect
Community