Our Island, Earth
All living and nonliving things with which organisms interract
Testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question
What is hypothesis?
Set of moral principals or values held by a person or society
What is ethics?
Amount of product offered for sale at a given price
What is supply?
Formal set of plans for addressing problems and guiding decision making
What is policy?
Study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment
A study where all variables are controlled except one
What is controlled study?
Broad explanation that is supported by several lines of evidence and broadly accepted by the scientific communtiy
What is theory?
What is demand?
Time period people overused natural resources in the West
What is the Second Period (late 1800s to mid-1960s)?
Natural resources that are naturally replenished, or renewed, over short periods
What is Renewable natural resource?
A variable that the scientist manipulates
What is independent variable?
Human-centered view on our relationship with the environment
Study of how resources become goods and services that are distributed and used
What is economics?
Time period people became aware of environmental issues
What is Third Period (mid- to late- 1900s)?
Coal, oil, natural gas
What is Nonrenewable energy Resources/Fossil Fuels
A variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment
Judges actions in terms of their benefit or harm to the integrity of whole ecological systems
What is ecocentrism?
Value that is not usually included in the price of goods or services
What is non-market value?
Time period people thought the amount of land and resources in the West was endless
What is First Period (1780s to late-1800s)?
Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world and people
What is environmentalism?
Meaningful and predictable relationship among variables
What is correlation?
Formal way for researchers to get comments and criticisms from the scientific community
What is peer-review?
comparison of the disadvantages and advantages of a specific action
What is cost-benefit analysis?
Requires government agencies and any businesses to evaluate the impact of a project on the environment before proceeding
What is Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)?