Science Skills
Sciences
Famous Scientists
Ecology
Environmental Issues
100
eyes, ears, skin, nose, tongue
What is used to observe the world around us?
100
Study of how humans interact with an environment.
What is environmental science?
100
This scientist gained worldwide fame as he created extraordinary theories related to relativity and for his suggestions and premises that are related to the light’s particle nature.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
any contiguous living system (such as animal, fungus, micro-organism, or plant).
What is an organism?
100
is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events).
What is climate change?
200
Observing, hypothesizing and predicting, experimenting, organizing and interpreting data, using graphics and sharing information.
What are scientific methods?
200
the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin, growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior.
What is biology?
200
As a scientist, he was one of the prominent figures in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his findings and theories regarding electricity.
Who is Ben Franklin?
200
encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species.
What is a natural environment?
200
is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity.
What is conservation?
300
A testable explanation for a specific problem or question, based on what already has been learned.
What is a hypothesis?
300
any of various sciences, as geography, geology, or meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects.
What is earth science?
300
One of the greatest American inventors who held countless patents, majority of them related to electricity and power.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system.
What is an ecosystem?
300
is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife.
What is environmental degradation?
400
Statement about what one expects will happen.
What is predicting?
400
the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
What is ecology?
400
British naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
400
an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism
What is a habitat?
400
Those aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health.
What is environmental health?
500
Use of our senses to report the characteristics of propeties and phenomena.
What are observations?
500
any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
What is life science?
500
This renowned scientist was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa. He was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and flautist who played a vital role in the Scientific Revolution. This great man was the first to use a refracting telescope to make imperative astronomical discoveries.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
is the degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet.
What is biodiversity?
500
is the human use of land. It involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. It has also been defined as "the arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover type to produce, change or maintain it."
What is "Land Use"?
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