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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anything that harms an organism
Fossil fuel
Pollution
Risk assessment
Environmental Science
2. A material that cannot be recycled or reused
Growth rate
Condensation
Nonrecyclable
Mass extinctions
3. Moving into a population
Immigration
Ecological footprint
Abiotic factor
Renewable resource
4. A living part of an organism's habitat
Ecosystem
Pioneer species
Biotic factor
Agriculture Revolution
5. A species that influences the survival of many others in an ecosystem
Food chain
Developed countries
Prey
Keystone species
6. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Pie graph
Species
Greenhouse effect
Diet
7. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Carrying capacity
Poaching
Mass extinctions
Major food nutrients
8. Something that does not completely break down into the soil
Adaptations
Non-biodegradable
Food web
Bar graph
9. An organism that can make it's own food
Producer
Community
Industrial Revolution
Natural resource
10. Countries with less productive economies and a lower quality of life
Predation
Developing countries
Producer
Natural Resource
11. Organism that is killed
Prey
Tragedy of the commons
Carnivore
Scavenger
12. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of them
Symbiosis
Experimental Groups
Parasitism
Pie graph
13. A relationship that involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it
Green revolution
Community
Parasitism
Depleted
14. Organism that does the killing
Mutualism
human error
Predator
Condensation
15. The process of cutting down only some trees in area
Carnivore
Pie graph
Parasitism
Selective cutting
16. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Condensation
Consumer
Habitat
Precipitation
17. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Extinction
Greenhouse effect
Malnutrition
18. An environmental factor that causes a population to decrease
Estuary
Limiting factor
Experimental error
Dependent variable
19. All the different populations that live together in an area
Climate
Predator
Community
Emigration
20. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Risk assessment
Immigration
Host
Omnivore
21. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
Adaptations
Carnivore
Abiotic factor
Control Group
22. A relationship in which both species benefit
Climate
Line graph
Mutualism
Pie graph
23. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Experimental Groups
Water cycle
Diet
Prey
24. A study that compares the costs and benefits to society of providing a public good
Dispersal
Cost benefit analysis
Keystone species
Famine
25. Leaving a population
Niche
Parasitism
Green revolution
Emigration
26. The rate of which a plant grows at
Primary succession
Famine
Growth rate
Mutualism
27. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Mass extinctions
Risk assessment
Adaptations
28. The organism that the parasite lives in or on
Estuary
Food web
Host
Environmental issue
29. A resource that is able to be reused - or can be replenished quickly
Depleted
Decomposer
Environmental issue
Renewable resource
30. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Environmental issue
Natural selection
Ecology
Nonrecyclable
31. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
human error
Endangered species
Mutualism
Experimental Groups
32. The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
Sustainability
Carnivore
Symbiosis
Global warming
33. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Hunters and Gatherers
Nitrogen fixation
Nonrenewable resource
Control Group
34. The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
Experimental Groups
Food web
Parasite
Nonrenewable resource
35. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Biodiversity
Developed countries
Adaptations
Natural selection
36. The series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time
Selective cutting
Habitat
Succession
Supply and demand
37. Evaluation of the short-term and long-term risks associated with a particular activity or hazard
Mass extinctions
Risk assessment
Precipitation
Grains
38. The organism that benefits by living on or in a host
Parasite
Biodegradable
Adaptations
Data table
39. All the members of one species in a particular area
Natural Resource
Population
Food chain
Sustainability
40. Liphids - proteins - and carbohydrates
Population
Major food nutrients
Ecosystem
Scavenger
41. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Nonrenewable resource
Diet
Commensalism
Evaporation
42. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Species
Groundwater
Data table
Predation
43. A group of organisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce
Malnutrition
Species
Yield
Evaporation
44. Capable of being broken down by bacteria or other decomposers
human error
Poaching
Biodegradable
Pioneer species
45. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Famine
Experimental Groups
Green revolution
Population
46. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Yield
Commensalism
Non-biodegradable
47. Mass destruction of most species
Secondary succession
Cost benefit analysis
Nonrecyclable
Mass extinctions
48. The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
Mass extinctions
Climate
Scatter graph
Consumer
49. The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth
Extinction
Developing countries
Precipitation
Niche
50. A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
Evaporation
Energy conservation
Food chain
Agriculture