Unit 1 Vocabulary
Is the process of taking water from a groundwater source
What is abstraction?
Is when a scientist either knowingly or unknowingly uses sampling that favors one outcome over another.
What is Bias?
When water soaks into the soil, removing minerals and nutrients, inhibiting plant growth
What is leaching?
Number of infant deaths per 1000 children under 1
What is infant mortality rate?
Is the layer of gases, dust,and vapor that surrounds the Earth
What is atmosphere?
Are gases in the atmosphere that change in amount over time and place
What is variable gases?
It is a testable statement that predicts the outcome and answers a specific question.
Factors that cause people to leave an area
What are push factors?
What is population distribution?
Is the connection of all the individual food chains within a community
What is food web?
Is a group of organisms within an ecosystem that fills the same level in the food chain
What is trophic level?
Is when data that does not fit the hypothesis is ignored
What is confirmation bias?
An industry that converts raw material into products
What is a secondary industry?
People moving out of a country
What is emigration?
Are gases in the atmosphere that absorb infrared radiation
What are greenhouse gases?
Is anything that may slow or limit population growth
What is limiting factor?
Are generated from mathematical equations that use thousands of data points to predict climate change
What is climate models?
A policy that discourages human reproduction
What is an antinatalist policy?
The study of how and why populations change size and how they are managed
What is population dynamics?
Is the increase in Earth’s natural greenhouse effect caused by extra greenhouse gases from human activities (like burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and farming).
What is enhanced greenhouse effect?
Is the role and position that a species fills in an ecosystem
What is ecological niche?
Used to estimate the size of a population when it is not practical to catch all of individuals
What is capture-mark-recapture?
The number of males and females within different age groups in a population
What is population structure?
Data points that do not fit the pattern.
What are anomalies?
Is a procedure, observation, measurement, and an experiment to test a hypothesis
What is the scientific method/