What is science
A way in which scientists use and gather data
What is the scientific method?
The 3 ways in which data can be organized
What are charts, graphs, and tables
Individuals at the same level of education or specialization?
What are peers?
Is often a term used to describe the natural world
What is the environment?
A measure of the demands made by one person or group on global natural resources.
What is ecological footprint?
Rules and regulations to help conserve common resources.
What are environmental policies?
The study of the production and consumption of scarce resources and the way they affect behavior.
What is economics?
What are the three parts of a controlled experiment
What are controls, independent variable and independent variable?
Data in which numbers or measurements are used to calculate.
What is Quantitative data?
Explains a phenomenon and is supported by many different fields of evidence.
What is a scientific theory?
Resource that takes a long time to replenish such as fossil fuels
What is non renewable?
An ecological footprint includes which two things needed to dispose of the waste produced.
What are materials and resources?
The encouragement of an environmentally friendly activity through subsidies by the goverment of tax breaks
What are incentives?
When demand is high but supply is low the price of the resource can be.
What is increased?
Reasoning that looks for patterns or rules in the natural world.
Reasoning that compares new things to the rules of the natural world.
What are inductive and deductive reasoning?
What can support or reject a hypothesis?
What is a conclusion?
Can be submitted and may provide support for a larger scientific theory
What is peer review?
Resources that is naturally replenished over short periods of time
What are renewable resources?
When a shared resource is unregulated and individuals will consume it a selfish rate.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
Policies that focus on the threat of punishment if rules are not followed.
What are regulations?
The process of deciding whether the gain brought by the resource is worth the cost?
What is the cost-benefit analysis?
Scientists use these about the world around them to make inferences
What are observations?
Data in which we use description or words.
What is qualitative data?
The branch of knowledge that involves moral principles
What is ethics?
The environment includes in which they interact with each other.
What is living and nonliving things?
2 places that have a large ecological footprint?
What are USA, Russia, Australia, China, Middle East.
What are regulations and incentives?
When supply is high and demand is low price of the resource will
What is decrease?
A testable explanation for a question or problem
What is a hypothesis?
What can we do with others that helps the whole scientific community to further our knowledge?
What is sharing data?
The three world views that prevail in environmental science
What are Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, Ecocentrism
The 2 major events that changed the course of human history and the way in we interact with natural resources
What is the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution?
A cause of a great ecological footprint that involves technology.
What is industrialization?
Combination of both regulations and incentives
What are cap and trade policies?
What are provisioning, cultural, supporting, and regulating?