Understanding Our Environment
Everything around us
What is the environment?
This type of science tries to understand how the natural world works
What is pure science?
One of the factors involved in environmental decisions is if the outcome will be beautiful or pleasing. This is an ____________ value
What is aesthetic?
This type of statement uses "If....then" format
What is a hypothesis?
Science is a ______ used by humans to understand the natural world. It is both something you ______ and something you _______
What is tool, know, do
Using up natural resources faster than they can be replaced
What is resource depletion?
This type of science uses information from pure science to solve problems
What is applied science?
One of the values in environmental decision making is if the outcome will increase knowledge. This is an ______________ value
What is educational?
This type of experiment has one condition that is changed to isolate the possible outcome
What is a controlled experiment?
Testing of a hypothesis under _________ conditions forms a basis of ___________
What is controlled and comparison
When the human population grows too fast for the area to support
What is the population crisis?
This is what a scientist uses to draw logical conclusions from a set of data
What is evidence?
One of the values in environmental decision making is if the outcome will provide jobs, cost money or add money. This is an example of an ______________ value
What is economic?
This is the variable in a controlled experiment that is manipulated or changed
What is the independent variable?
Science is _____ - _________. A hypothesis may be ___________, __________ and tested again.
What is self-correcting, rejected, revised?
This is the main reason why species today go extinct
What is habitat destruction?
This type of observation uses numbers
What is quantitative?
One of the values in environmental decision making is if the outcome will protect or adversely affect our natural resources. This is an example of an ____________ value
What is environmental?
This is the variable in a controlled experiment that responds or that can be measured
What is the dependent variable?
When scientists publish results in a professional journal and other scientists critique their work.
What is peer review?
The study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
What is Environmental Science?
This type of observation uses descriptive terms (adjectives such as - blue, attractive, etc)
What is qualitative?
The Four-Step process in environmental decision making
What is:
1. Gather information
2. Consider values
3. Explore consequences
4. Make a decision
If a hypothesis is unsupported by the data, we say that it is ________________
What is rejected?
The socio-political movement advocating preservation and restoration of the natural environment
What is environmentalism?