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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Subsistence farmers
Data table
Decomposer
Adaptations
2. A resource that is not able to be reused - or cannot be replenished quickly
Greenhouse effect
human error
Agriculture
Nonrenewable resource
3. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Data table
Non-biodegradable
Supply and demand
Abiotic factor
4. All the different populations that live together in an area
Food web
Column Graph
Community
Pioneer species
5. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Supply and demand
Precipitation
Selective cutting
Industrial Revolution
6. A species that could become endangered in the near future
Niche
Natural selection
Energy conservation
Threatened species
7. A graph that highlights segments of a circle to show simple distribution patterns
Natural Resource
Pie graph
Grains
Scatter graph
8. A graph that uses dots to compare rate of change over time
Community
Scatter graph
Subsistence farmers
Decomposer
9. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Evaporation
Grains
Predator
Temperature
10. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Producer
Diet
Renewable resource
Primary succession
11. Situation in which people acting individually and in their own interest use up commonly available but limited resources - creating disaster for the entire community
Species
Tragedy of the commons
Parasite
Yield
12. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Food chain
Natural resource
Column Graph
Poaching
13. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Agriculture
Control Group
Renewable resources
Ecological footprint
14. A nonliving part of an organism's habitat
Mutualism
Abiotic factor
Nonrecyclable
Non-biodegradable
15. Moving into a population
Major food nutrients
Adaptations
Pie graph
Immigration
16. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Emigration
Prey
Succession
Secondary succession
17. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Diet
Carrying capacity
Global warming
Keystone species
18. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Global warming
Parasite
Food web
Supply and demand
19. A chart with bars
Supply and demand
Pioneer species
Bar graph
Symbiosis
20. The variable that you manipulate
Independent variable
Evaporation
Food web
Population
21. Anything that harms an organism
Dispersal
Tragedy of the commons
Extinction
Pollution
22. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biome
Growth rate
Natural Resource
Host
23. The study of how living and nonliving things interact
Ecology
Subsistence farmers
Developed countries
Non-biodegradable
24. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Prey
Hunters and Gatherers
Natural selection
Limiting factor
25. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Host
Evaporation
Limiting factor
Condensation
26. The introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Poaching
Green revolution
Condensation
Ecological footprint
27. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Industrial Revolution
Temperature
Scavenger
Niche
28. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Line graph
Non-biodegradable
Grains
Food chain
29. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Parasite
Environmental Science
Nonrecyclable
Immigration
30. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Global warming
Pie graph
Primary succession
Selective cutting
31. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Efficiency
Food chain
Nitrogen fixation
Symbiosis
32. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Developing countries
Biodegradable
Renewable resources
Predation
33. The practice of growing - breeding - and caring for plants and animals that are used for food - clothing - transportation - and other uses
Consumer
Pie graph
Parasitism
Agriculture
34. The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed - but where soil and organisms exist
Secondary succession
Data table
Industrial Revolution
Decomposer
35. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Geothermal energy
Nonrenewable resource
Sustainability
36. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Threatened species
Climate
Control Group
Nonrenewable resource
37. The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Efficiency
Agriculture Revolution
Extinction
Decomposer
38. The effect of the IV
Dependent variable
Recyclable
Geothermal energy
Nitrogen fixation
39. Mass destruction of most species
Biodegradable
Mass extinctions
Famine
Growth rate
40. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Biome
Global warming
Supply and demand
Major food nutrients
41. Heat from the Earth's interior
Fossil fuel
Famine
Biodegradable
Geothermal energy
42. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Grains
Limiting factor
Ecosystem
Prey
43. Any form of water that falls to the Earth's surface
Estuary
Climate
Line graph
Precipitation
44. An organism that can make it's own food
Water cycle
Producer
Agriculture Revolution
Biodegradable
45. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Nitrogen fixation
Carnivore
Parasitism
Host
46. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Natural Resource
Industrial Revolution
Renewable resources
Diet
47. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Condensation
Developing countries
Environmental Science
Sustainability
48. The rate of which a plant grows at
Endangered species
Growth rate
Temperature
Parasitism
49. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Parasite
Environmental issue
Depleted
Major food nutrients
50. Flaw in design of procedure
Food web
Environmental issue
Experimental error
Bar graph