Sustainability
Living on Earth in a way that allows humans to use its resources without depriving future generations of those resources.
What is Sustainability?
An objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes
What is the Scientific Method?
Non-numerical terms used to describe something.
What is Qualitative Data?
Making a general statement from specific facts or data.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
An indicator describing the current state of an ecosystem.
What is an Environmental Indicator?
These kinds of countries have higher populations.
What are Underdeveloped Countries?
A testable conjecture about how something works.
What is a Hypothesis?
Numerical terms used to measure or count something.
What is Quantitative Data?
Making a general statement to specific facts or data.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
Winter is overall hotter than Summer.
What is a testable hypothesis?
These kinds of countries have higher consumption.
What are Developed Countries?
What is the Third Step of the Scientific Method, Collecting Data?
The variable being manipulated.
What is an Independent Variable?
Every dog I've seen has barked, so every dog must bark.
What is an example of Inductive Reasoning?
The values are close to the true value, but the sampled measurements aren't close to one another.
What is High Accuracy but Low Precision?
Fisheries and Forests
What are Examples of Overexploitation?
What are Various Ways to Interpret Results?
The variable being measured.
Frogs are amphibious, amphibians live both on land and in water, so frogs live both on land and in water.
What is an example of Deductive Reasoning?
All reptiles are cold-blooded. Foxes aren't reptiles, so foxes aren't cold-blooded.
What is an Example of Deductive Reasoning?
Using various environmental indicators.
What is Finding a Way to Live Sustainably?
All five steps of the Scientific Method.
What is:
Observing and Questioning
Forming Hypotheses
Collecting Data
Interpreting Results
Disseminating Findings
How close a particular measure is to the true value and how close the repeated measurements of a sample are to one another.
What is Accuracy and Precision?
If you play games all day, you'll get less work done. You just got the ability to play games after losing that for a month, so now you can play games all day, therefore you will get less work done.
What is an Example of Inductive Reasoning?
The field of study looking at interactions between human systems and natural systems, allowing humans to see how they are affecting the environment.
What is Environmental Science?