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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Non-biodegradable
Community
Commensalism
2. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Food chain
Renewable resources
Selective cutting
Precipitation
3. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Developed countries
Predation
Food chain
Ecological footprint
4. The practice of reducing energy use
Control Group
Ecological footprint
Energy conservation
Adaptations
5. Mass destruction of most species
Food chain
Limiting factor
Mass extinctions
Ecosystem
6. A consumer that eats only animals
Carnivore
Dispersal
Developed countries
Primary succession
7. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Commensalism
Geothermal energy
8. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Pioneer species
Host
Pie graph
Control Group
9. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Major food nutrients
Depleted
Secondary succession
Pie graph
10. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Greenhouse effect
Grains
Nonrenewable resource
Extinction
11. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Temperature
Ecosystem
Supply and demand
Estuary
12. Heat from the Earth's interior
Mutualism
Predator
Geothermal energy
Industrial Revolution
13. Moving into a population
Greenhouse effect
Consumer
Pollution
Immigration
14. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Carnivore
Supply and demand
Malnutrition
Efficiency
15. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Community
Experimental Groups
Tragedy of the commons
Poaching
16. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Nitrogen fixation
Diet
Dispersal
Biodegradable
17. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Biodegradable
Risk assessment
Dependent variable
Environmental Science
18. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Decomposer
human error
Biodiversity
Data table
19. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Estuary
Renewable resource
Producer
20. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Carrying capacity
Experimental Groups
Population
21. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Geothermal energy
Food web
Ecological footprint
Ecosystem
22. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Natural resource
Subsistence farmers
Yield
Environmental issue
23. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Nonrenewable resource
Cost benefit analysis
Symbiosis
Biodegradable
24. Resources supplied by nature
Environmental issue
Natural Resource
Green revolution
Biodegradable
25. A consumer that eats only plants
Independent variable
Herbivore
Biodegradable
Host
26. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Ecosystem
Omnivore
Recyclable
Extinction
27. Organism that does the killing
Greenhouse effect
Food chain
Predator
Nonrenewable resource
28. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Tragedy of the commons
Column Graph
Growth rate
Nonrenewable resource
29. The number of different species in an area
Agriculture
Omnivore
Biodiversity
Global warming
30. All the different populations that live together in an area
Agriculture Revolution
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Succession
Community
31. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Developed countries
Sustainability
Control Group
Predation
32. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Habitat
Condensation
Pie graph
Carnivore
33. Something that breaks down into soil
Fossil fuel
Biodegradable
Industrial Revolution
Commensalism
34. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Predator
Keystone species
Experimental error
Experimental Groups
35. A chart with bars
Temperature
Nonrenewable resource
Bar graph
Efficiency
36. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Risk assessment
Scavenger
Hunters and Gatherers
Host
37. All the members of one species in a particular area
Precipitation
Population
Tragedy of the commons
Natural selection
38. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Carnivore
Selective cutting
Growth rate
39. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Data table
Pie graph
Threatened species
Nonrenewable resource
40. Countries with strong economies and a high quality of life
Scatter graph
Developed countries
Species
Temperature
41. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Biotic factor
Producer
Recyclable
Consumer
42. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Depleted
Commensalism
Data table
43. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Ecology
Recyclable
Grains
Agriculture
44. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Renewable resource
Yield
Fossil fuel
Extinction
45. Organism that is killed
Risk assessment
Predator
Estuary
Prey
46. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Renewable resource
Temperature
Species
Selective cutting
47. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Population
Greenhouse effect
Developing countries
Biome
48. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Producer
Omnivore
Diet
Water cycle
49. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Abiotic factor
Agriculture
Malnutrition
Pioneer species
50. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Threatened species
Tragedy of the commons
Sustainability
Food web