Tragedy of the Commons
Scientific Method
Developed and Developing Countries
How scientist use Data?
Renewable Resources
100
This ecologist argued that in order to resolve environmental problems conflict must be resolved in the short term interests of the individual and the long term welfare of the society
Who is Garrett Hardin?
100
A series of scientific steps that scientists use in order to identify problems and answer questions.
What is the scientific or experimental method?
100
These countries have lower average incomes, simple agriculture based communities, and rapid population growth
What are Developing countries?
100
Scientists who don't believe everything they are told
What is skepticism?
100
Food production, education, and job creation is the source of fewer resources as time goes on
What are local population pressures?
200
This was the response if too many animals grazed the commons because the animals would destroy the grass. Then no one could raise the animals on the grass and everyone suffered
What is the 'Tragedy of the Commons?'
200
Scientist follow this step when photographing birds?
What is observation?
200
In areas where population has grown rapidly, this may be reduced to sustain a healthy life
What are natural resources?
200
Scientist who is willing to recognize the results of an experiment even though it may mean that his or her hypothesis was wrong
What is intellectual honesty?
200
The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely
What is sustainability?
300
Environmental regulations are passed on to whom
What is the consumer or taxpayer?
300
Procedures that are carried out under controlled conditions to discover, demonstrate, or test a fact theory or general truth
What is experimenting?
300
These countries have higher incomes, slower population growth, and stronger social support
What are developed countries?
300
The factor that changes in an experiment in order to test a hypothesis
What is a variable?
300
Water, coal and air are examples of...
What are natural resources?
400
The law of economics that states as the demand for a good or service increases, the value or the food or service will also increase
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
400
The group in the experiment that serves as a standard of comparison with another group except for one factor
What is the control group?
400
Scientists believe that this will double in the 21st century before it begins to stabilize
What is human population?
400
The likelihood that a possible future event will occur in any given instance of the event
What is probability?
400
Can be relatively replaced quickly by natural process
What are renewable resources?
500
The number one trade that is high in supply and demand is
What is oil production?
500
One who factors and observes or measures what happens
Who is the experimenter?
500
Resource depletion, pollution, loss of biodiversity are examples of
What are the main environmental problems?
500
Three dimensional models that you can touch
What are physical models?
500
One of the earliest ways that land was converted to farmland
What is the slash and burn technique?
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