Environment
What does the environment consist of? (living and nonlivng?)
Forest, people, buildings-- nonliving and living things
What is a natural resource?
Materials and energy sources found in nature that humans need to survive
What is Science?
Organized way of studying the natural world, and the knowledge gained from such studies.
Systematic Process
What is a hypothesis?
Testable ides.
Attempts to answer a scientific question or explain a phenomenon.
Narrow!
What are ethics?
A set of morals or principles held by a person or a society.
What is Environmental Science?
Study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment
What is a renewable resource? Give an example?
naturally replenished over short periods of time
True or False
The process of science takes place in one specific order (linear)?
False.
Science is not linear.
What is a theory?
What is peer review? Peer reviewed journals?
other scientist review the study that has been submitted for publishing.
most respected in science because they have passed through a rigorous evaluation process involving feedback.
What is Environmentalism?
Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world
What is a nonrenewable resource? Give an example.
Naturally formed more slowly than we use them.
True or False
Scientist work only in the natural world.
True.
What are the beginning steps of a scientific investigation?
Observing and questioning
Anthropocentrism
A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment.
What is the agricultural revolution? Did it come before or after the industrial revolution?
Agricultural revolution- 10,000 years ago. We began living in villages, longer life spans, more surviving children, domesticating animals.
Sustainable
the ability to maintain the use of that resource for the foreseeable future
What is data?
Information
What is modeling?
used to generate a prediction when a scientist cannot directly observe the phenomenon.
What is ecocentrism?
Gives value to all living things, both human and nonhuman.
What is the industrial revolution? Did it come before or after the bubonic plague?
Began the use of fossil fuels (oil, coal, metals), shift from rural life, manufacturing, animal-powered agriculture, urban society. After the bubonic plague.
Renewable Continuum
Renewable resources such as sunlight, wind, and wave energy are on one end of the continuum.
In between- renewable resources but take longer to replenish
Nonrenewable resources such as crude oil, coal, copper, aluminum
The variable a scientist manipulates________
independent variable
True or False
Science assumes the natural world does not change unpredictably.
True or False
In the last several hundred years, human population has decreased dramatically.
False.
The population has increased.