Vocabulary
What is energy?
Energy is the ability to do work.
What is pH
The scale to indicate the strength of acids and bases.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is the scientific method?
scientific method is an objective way to explore the natural world draw inferences from it and predicted outcome of soaring events process or changes
What is an ecological footprint?
The amount a person consumes represented in area of land.
What is a covalent bond?
Elements that do not readily gain or lose electrons from compounds by sharing electrons
What makes an acid acidic?
Has hydrogen ions
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
Energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to work diminishes.
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Observation and questions.
What is Sustainable development?
Development that balances current Jan well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations.
What is a polar molecule?
Inside is more positive and the other side is more negative.
What makes a base basic?
It has hydroxide ions
What is energy efficiency?
The ratio the amount of work that is done to the total amount of energy that is introduced into the system in the first place.
What are you trying to test in your experiment when using the scientific method?
A hypothesis
What are the basic human needs?
Air, water, food, and shelter.
What are ecosystem services?
process by which life support and resources such as clean water timber fisheries and agriculturalcrops are produced.
What is the difference between each number on the scale?
There's a difference of 10 between each number on the scale.
What is energy quality?
The ease in which an energy source can be used for work
What are the 5 steps of the scientific method?
the five steps of the scientific method are observations and questions,hypothesis ,collecting data, interpreting results ,and disseminating finding
What is biophilia?
The love of life
What is anthropogenic?
Derived from human activities
What does carbon dioxide do to water
Carbon dioxide makes water more acidic.
What is entropy?
Is always increasing in the systems, unless new energy from outside the system is added to create order.
What is a statement or idea that can be falsified or proven wrong?
A null hypothesis
What is the measurement used for land
Hectares