What is Environmental Science?
All the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact
What is environment?
The use of resources at a rate that can continue for the foreseeable future.
What is sustainable?
an organized and methodical way of studying the natural world and the knowledge gained from such studies.
what is Science?
What is a dependent variable?
What is peer review and replication?
The study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
What is Environmental Science?
what is the Industrial Revolution?
The boiling point of pure water at sea level.
What is 100 degrees Celcius?
A meaningful and predictable relationship among variables.
What is correlation?
Based on replication rather than a one-time occurrence.
What is sound science?
A social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from changes brought about by human actions.
What is environmentalism?
The total amount of land and water required to provide the raw materials an individual or population consumes.
What is Ecological Footprint?
Found at the heart of science.
What is Testing Ideas?
All variables are controlled except one.
What is Controlled Studies?
It must be repeatedly tested and results replicated before results can be accepted.
What is a hypothesis?
Crude oil, natural gas, coal, copper, aluminum, and other metals are examples of...
What are Nonrenewable Natural Resources?
What are water, timber and soil?
a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
What is hypothesis?
An idea that must effectively explain a phenomenon, make accurate predictions in a variety of situations, and must have undergone rigorous testing.
What is scientific theory?
Sunlight, wind energy, wave energy, and geothermal energy are examples of...
What is Renewable Natural Resources?
a fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things.
what is fossil fuel?
An activity designed to test the validity of a prediction or a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
The meaning of CFCs.
What is Carbon, Fluorine, and Chlorine?
A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment.
What is anthropocentrism?