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DSST Environmental Sciences Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving surroundings
Fossil fuel
Estuary
Ecosystem
Green revolution
2. Wheat -bairley -corn....carbohydrates
Agriculture
Grains
Parasitism
Pollution
3. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Risk assessment
Diet
Emigration
Predation
4. A relationship in which both species benefit
Dispersal
Mutualism
Community
Ecosystem
5. Beginning of urban cities - switch from man power to fossil fuels - machinery and factories are prevalent
Independent variable
Biodiversity
Ecological footprint
Industrial Revolution
6. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Water cycle
Biodegradable
Parasite
Temperature
7. An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live - grow and reproduce
Groundwater
Nonrecyclable
Habitat
Secondary succession
8. Measure of quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources
Dispersal
Efficiency
Biodegradable
Scavenger
9. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
Condensation
Bar graph
Famine
Climate
10. Flaw in design of procedure
Experimental error
Mass extinctions
Independent variable
Biodegradable
11. A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
Temperature
Subsistence farmers
Scavenger
Consumer
12. Mistake in following procedure
Carrying capacity
Symbiosis
Sustainability
human error
13. The rate of which a plant grows at
Niche
Efficiency
Growth rate
Prey
14. A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.
Population
Prey
Natural selection
Data table
15. In an experiment - the group of participants that recieves the manipulation
Diet
Biodiversity
Experimental Groups
Selective cutting
16. An energy rich substance (such as coal - oil - or natural gas) formed from the remains of organisms
Extinction
Fossil fuel
Global warming
Consumer
17. The trapping of heat near Earth's surface by certain gases (carbon dioxide - water vapor and other gases) in the atmosphere
Malnutrition
Greenhouse effect
Estuary
Developing countries
18. The largest population that an area can support
Carrying capacity
Diet
Habitat
Worlds 5 Main Foods
19. Farmers who raise food and animals mainly to feed their own families
Prey
Subsistence farmers
Poaching
Food web
20. Anything that harms an organism
Pollution
Carnivore
Biodiversity
Evaporation
21. All the different populations that live together in an area
Scatter graph
Geothermal energy
Abiotic factor
Community
22. The number of different species in an area
Malnutrition
Biodiversity
Estuary
Natural resource
23. Behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allow them to live successfully in their environment
Sustainability
Adaptations
Predation
Line graph
24. Type of graph most often used for categorical data
Endangered species
Parasitism
Column Graph
Yield
25. Anything in the environment that is used by people
Dependent variable
Ecological footprint
Natural resource
human error
26. A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame
Succession
Depleted
Line graph
Nonrenewable resource
27. Struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
Environmental issue
Poaching
Emigration
Competition
28. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another
Predation
Biome
Diet
Immigration
29. A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
Agriculture Revolution
Renewable resources
Predation
Temperature
30. The process by which molecules of liquid absorb energy and change to gas
Commensalism
Biodegradable
Evaporation
Natural selection
31. The study of the impact of humans on the environment
Environmental Science
Control Group
Pioneer species
Sustainability
32. The theory that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise Earth's average temperature
Subsistence farmers
Global warming
Malnutrition
Population
33. The series of changes that occur in an area where no soil or organisms exist
Grains
Primary succession
Fossil fuel
Adaptations
34. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
Agriculture Revolution
Experimental error
Decomposer
Line graph
35. The process in which the changes that make organisms better suited to their environments develop
Environmental issue
Natural selection
Renewable resource
Host
36. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
Limiting factor
Decomposer
Water cycle
Natural Resource
37. A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
Biotic factor
Hunters and Gatherers
Biome
Nonrenewable resource
38. A consumer that eats both plants and animals
Nitrogen fixation
Greenhouse effect
Recyclable
Omnivore
39. A habitat in which the freshwater of a river meets the salt water of an ocean
Estuary
Endangered species
Carrying capacity
Depleted
40. A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
Energy conservation
Yield
Ecological footprint
Estuary
41. A living part of an organism's habitat
Experimental error
Biotic factor
Column Graph
Food chain
42. The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
Renewable resources
Threatened species
Nitrogen fixation
Parasitism
43. Illegal killing or removal of wildlife from their habitats
Experimental Groups
Poaching
Scavenger
Agriculture Revolution
44. The issue where humans don't take care of the Earth.
Prey
Environmental issue
Abiotic factor
Biome
45. The number of different species in a given area
Biodiversity
Cost benefit analysis
Efficiency
Groundwater
46. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
Control Group
Consumer
Natural selection
Sustainability
47. People who survive by searching for wild plants and animals; always move in small groups
Emigration
Carrying capacity
Hunters and Gatherers
Keystone species
48. Organism that does the killing
Secondary succession
Malnutrition
Predator
Grains
49. Resources supplied by nature
Dependent variable
Natural Resource
Biodiversity
Omnivore
50. The amount of food production in a given area
Nonrenewable resource
Column Graph
Yield
Independent variable