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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Recyclable
Depleted
Consumer
Hunters and Gatherers
2. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Pioneer species
Renewable resource
Endangered species
Carrying capacity
3. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Supply and demand
Species
Natural selection
Risk assessment
4. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Developed countries
Natural resource
human error
5. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Carrying capacity
Data table
Extinction
Efficiency
6. Leaving a population
Cost benefit analysis
Emigration
Malnutrition
Commensalism
7. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Energy conservation
Depleted
Precipitation
Primary succession
8. The number of different species in a given area
Selective cutting
Biodiversity
Malnutrition
Carnivore
9. Flaw in design of procedure
Emigration
Experimental error
Producer
Column Graph
10. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Habitat
Water cycle
Control Group
Adaptations
11. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Green revolution
Renewable resources
Mutualism
12. Possible to use again
Decomposer
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Recyclable
Biodegradable
13. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Yield
Natural Resource
Niche
Developed countries
14. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Efficiency
Subsistence farmers
Prey
Supply and demand
15. Moving into a population
Greenhouse effect
Pie graph
Depleted
Immigration
16. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Scatter graph
Mass extinctions
Predation
Precipitation
17. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Adaptations
Biodegradable
Estuary
18. The rate of which a plant grows at
Habitat
Biotic factor
Growth rate
Column Graph
19. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Parasitism
Global warming
Pollution
Biotic factor
20. Resources supplied by nature
Natural Resource
Bar graph
Experimental Groups
Nitrogen fixation
21. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Consumer
Ecological footprint
Decomposer
Nitrogen fixation
22. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Experimental Groups
Biome
Symbiosis
Poaching
23. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Industrial Revolution
Non-biodegradable
Carrying capacity
Yield
24. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Abiotic factor
Ecology
Threatened species
Column Graph
25. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Cost benefit analysis
Biodegradable
Experimental Groups
Nonrenewable resource
26. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Cost benefit analysis
Dependent variable
Precipitation
Ecosystem
27. A consumer that eats only plants
Herbivore
human error
Limiting factor
Succession
28. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Threatened species
Agriculture Revolution
human error
Non-biodegradable
29. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Biodegradable
Parasite
Endangered species
Climate
30. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Community
Greenhouse effect
Mutualism
31. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Selective cutting
Column Graph
Pie graph
Secondary succession
32. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Carnivore
Estuary
Hunters and Gatherers
33. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Agriculture
Recyclable
Climate
34. Organism that is killed
Malnutrition
Ecology
Parasite
Prey
35. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Yield
Biodegradable
Consumer
Renewable resources
36. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Symbiosis
Abiotic factor
Food chain
Dependent variable
37. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Data table
Nonrenewable resource
Scatter graph
Biotic factor
38. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Malnutrition
Ecosystem
Famine
Food web
39. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Dispersal
Subsistence farmers
Data table
Natural resource
40. Heat from the Earth's interior
Biodiversity
Renewable resources
Geothermal energy
Biodegradable
41. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Parasitism
Competition
Natural Resource
Energy conservation
42. A chart with bars
Yield
Bar graph
Developed countries
Omnivore
43. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Ecology
Nonrecyclable
Cost benefit analysis
Worlds 5 Main Foods
44. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Dispersal
Renewable resource
Poaching
Adaptations
45. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Renewable resources
Omnivore
Decomposer
Diet
46. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Estuary
Line graph
Condensation
Decomposer
47. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Natural selection
human error
Grains
Succession
48. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Industrial Revolution
Adaptations
Natural resource
Abiotic factor
49. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Malnutrition
Non-biodegradable
Depleted
Famine
50. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrenewable resource
Temperature
Nonrecyclable
Immigration