The Environment & Society
Scientific Method
Making Informed Decisions
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
100
Developed nation
What kind of nation has diverse individual economies?
100
control group
What is The group that does not receive the experimental treatment in an experiment is the
100
Values
Principles or standards we consider important are known as
100
if, then
What is the format for stating a hypothesis?
100
values
What is principles or standards we consider important
200
Low income, agriculture based economy, high population growth. Mexico, India, Indonesia...
List the reasons for a developing nation and give three examples of countries.
200
(numerical) (description 5 Senses)
What is a quantitative observation? What is a qualitative observation?
200
human leisure activities
recreational values include
200
Constants
What is things that stay the same in all groups to make it a fair test
200
hypothesis
What is testable explanation for an observation
300
Copper prices would increase
According to the law of supply and demand, what would occur if the supply of copper declined but the demand remained the same?
300
correlations
By examining___________, scientists can test predictions for situations in which it is impossible or unethical to use experiments
300
Gathering Information
Which step in the environmental decision-making model should include reading newspapers and listening to well-informed people on all sides of an issue?
300
Open land, cows grazing...
Describe the tragedy of the commons.
300
educational value
What is the accumulation, sharing of knowledge
400
In a developing country, most people do not drive cars and generally depend less on resources from distant areas. Most of their food comes from nearby farms.
What is Why do people in developing countries tend to have a smaller ecological footprint than people in developed countries?
400
drawing conclusions, repeating experiments, and communicating results.
What is The three final steps of the experimental method in their correct order are
400
the protection of natural resources
environmental values include?
400
75, 20
Developed nations use about ____ percent of the world’s resources, although they make up only ____ percent of the world’s population.
400
Correlation
What is what scientists use to test a prediction when they cannot use an experiment
500
In a sustainable world, human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is a sustainable world?
500
IV - I change DV- Data you measure
What is the difference between an independent variable and dependent variable?
500
provides a systematic process, is a conceptual model, helps you make decisions
What is the decision making model?
500
Ecological Footprints
What are calculations that show the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country.
500
social/cultural value
What is the maintenance of human communities, their values, and their traditions
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