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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
Ecological footprint
Primary succession
Industrial Revolution
Biodegradable
2. The practice of reducing energy use
Predator
Emigration
Energy conservation
Biodiversity
3. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Geothermal energy
Major food nutrients
Poaching
Carrying capacity
4. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Predator
Efficiency
Renewable resources
Worlds 5 Main Foods
5. An organism's particular role - or how it makes its living
Endangered species
Data table
Grains
Niche
6. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Competition
Ecosystem
Agriculture Revolution
7. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Dependent variable
Control Group
Species
8. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Food web
Adaptations
Estuary
Threatened species
9. A higer demand of that limited product the the price goes up
Host
Ecosystem
Risk assessment
Supply and demand
10. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Extinction
Decomposer
Cost benefit analysis
11. Mistake in following procedure
human error
Industrial Revolution
Efficiency
Threatened species
12. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Fossil fuel
Habitat
Parasitism
Nonrenewable resource
13. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Niche
Renewable resource
Consumer
Green revolution
14. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Pioneer species
Developing countries
Nonrenewable resource
Secondary succession
15. A chart with bars
Bar graph
Biotic factor
Keystone species
Pollution
16. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Prey
Line graph
Sustainability
Biodegradable
17. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Scatter graph
Endangered species
Dependent variable
Renewable resource
18. Mass destruction of most species
Mass extinctions
Depleted
Pollution
Commensalism
19. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Biotic factor
Threatened species
Geothermal energy
Biodegradable
20. A living part of an organism's habitat
Climate
Agriculture Revolution
Developing countries
Biotic factor
21. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Scavenger
Groundwater
Control Group
Famine
22. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Keystone species
Independent variable
Diet
Host
23. Moving into a population
Immigration
Nonrenewable resource
Dependent variable
Industrial Revolution
24. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Natural selection
Precipitation
Natural Resource
Renewable resource
25. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Omnivore
Dispersal
Extinction
Condensation
26. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Experimental Groups
Parasite
Ecological footprint
Agriculture Revolution
27. A state of poor nutrition; lacking enough calories or variety in diet
human error
Symbiosis
Industrial Revolution
Malnutrition
28. Resources supplied by nature
Diet
Ecology
Community
Natural Resource
29. The first species to populate the area
Pioneer species
Keystone species
Growth rate
Worlds 5 Main Foods
30. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Yield
Fossil fuel
Limiting factor
Environmental Science
31. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Pioneer species
Pie graph
Parasitism
Consumer
32. Rice - corn - potatos - wheat - soy beans
Worlds 5 Main Foods
Habitat
Experimental error
Natural selection
33. The variable that you manipulate
Major food nutrients
Independent variable
Natural selection
Line graph
34. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Scatter graph
Agriculture
Depleted
Parasitism
35. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Decomposer
Parasite
Precipitation
Consumer
36. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Omnivore
Threatened species
Ecosystem
37. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Nonrecyclable
Dependent variable
Emigration
Non-biodegradable
38. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
Endangered species
Agriculture Revolution
Global warming
Commensalism
39. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Nonrenewable resource
Mass extinctions
Prey
Nitrogen fixation
40. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Independent variable
Cost benefit analysis
Pollution
Condensation
41. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Natural selection
Ecology
Scavenger
42. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Global warming
human error
Agriculture Revolution
43. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Hunters and Gatherers
Recyclable
Temperature
Diet
44. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Natural Resource
Omnivore
Immigration
Keystone species
45. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Groundwater
Ecology
Temperature
46. The largest population that an area can support
Consumer
Line graph
Independent variable
Carrying capacity
47. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Habitat
Food chain
Diet
Water cycle
48. Organism that is killed
Greenhouse effect
Dispersal
Bar graph
Prey
49. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Threatened species
Biodegradable
Food web
Evaporation
50. All the members of one species in a particular area
Recyclable
Population
Decomposer
Developing countries