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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Subsistence farmers
Emigration
Renewable resource
Tragedy of the commons
2. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Abiotic factor
Estuary
Developing countries
Scatter graph
3. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Producer
Pie graph
Bar graph
Pollution
4. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Depleted
Carrying capacity
Extinction
Worlds 5 Main Foods
5. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Condensation
Ecology
Poaching
Nonrecyclable
6. The number of different species in a given area
Industrial Revolution
Prey
Biodiversity
Column Graph
7. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Biotic factor
Agriculture Revolution
Climate
Limiting factor
8. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Tragedy of the commons
Fossil fuel
Experimental Groups
Extinction
9. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Biodiversity
Column Graph
Nonrenewable resource
10. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Developed countries
Biodegradable
Niche
11. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Natural resource
Decomposer
Habitat
Estuary
12. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Ecosystem
Developing countries
Developed countries
Risk assessment
13. All the members of one species in a particular area
Geothermal energy
Control Group
Producer
Population
14. Organism that does the killing
Prey
Succession
Biome
Predator
15. The movement or organisms from one place to another
Famine
Evaporation
Scatter graph
Dispersal
16. A chart with bars
Natural Resource
Bar graph
Environmental Science
Energy conservation
17. A consumer that eats only plants
Natural resource
Herbivore
Biotic factor
Habitat
18. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Biodegradable
Experimental Groups
Poaching
Control Group
19. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Parasite
Food chain
Estuary
Line graph
20. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Depleted
Precipitation
Estuary
21. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Industrial Revolution
Climate
Natural Resource
Endangered species
22. Water stored in underground layers of soil and rock
Groundwater
Agriculture Revolution
Threatened species
Geothermal energy
23. The amount of food production in a given area
Sustainability
Yield
Ecosystem
Prey
24. When a large fraction of the resource has been used up
Depleted
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural resource
Yield
25. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Keystone species
Biome
Primary succession
Ecology
26. Leaving a population
Hunters and Gatherers
Emigration
Primary succession
Risk assessment
27. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Keystone species
Immigration
Control Group
Succession
28. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Omnivore
Abiotic factor
Environmental issue
Biodegradable
29. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Developing countries
Data table
Selective cutting
Renewable resources
30. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Water cycle
Renewable resources
Experimental error
Developing countries
31. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Subsistence farmers
Food web
Tragedy of the commons
Scavenger
32. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Biodegradable
Renewable resource
human error
Column Graph
33. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
Environmental Science
Malnutrition
Data table
Risk assessment
34. The rate of which a plant grows at
Carrying capacity
Global warming
Growth rate
Parasite
35. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Immigration
Condensation
Supply and demand
Parasite
36. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Ecosystem
Commensalism
Environmental issue
37. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Competition
Non-biodegradable
Symbiosis
Primary succession
38. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Biome
Mass extinctions
Carrying capacity
39. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Nitrogen fixation
Supply and demand
Greenhouse effect
Water cycle
40. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green revolution
Biodiversity
Cost benefit analysis
Risk assessment
41. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Mutualism
Consumer
Supply and demand
Agriculture
42. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Subsistence farmers
Primary succession
Adaptations
Risk assessment
43. Organism that is killed
Fossil fuel
Experimental Groups
Estuary
Prey
44. A living part of an organism's habitat
Depleted
Biotic factor
Subsistence farmers
Fossil fuel
45. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Immigration
Abiotic factor
Pollution
Industrial Revolution
46. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Depleted
Sustainability
Food web
Primary succession
47. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Energy conservation
Recyclable
Renewable resource
48. The number of different species in an area
Biome
Hunters and Gatherers
Independent variable
Biodiversity
49. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Pie graph
Malnutrition
Nonrenewable resource
Geothermal energy
50. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Succession
Industrial Revolution
Symbiosis
Energy conservation